My first attempt to start a research-related blog...

[fpb]

...has been an utter demoralizing failure. Either I don't understand Blogger software, or it is no damn good for anything a bit text-heavy. I completely lost two days' hard work. It was a bloody good article, too, and to rewrite anything a second time is, to me, an agonizing experience.

Comments

[inverarity]

Don't you write in a text editor and save the file first?

Rather than a blog, you might consider something like scribd for academic articles.

[fpb]

Unless I missed something, it appears that you cannot import copied text into Blogger. I tried twice to import the first few verses of the Odyssey before I had to decide to type them in.

[fpb]

"Pasting copied text" is exactly what I tried. It did not work.

[kikei]

I second the text-editor comment (although I do tend to write directly into lj's web interface because I'm always somewhere). I don't know much about Blogger myself but I would hope they have an autosave feature, much in the way of lj, so you don't lose absolutely everything.

[fpb]

The autosave feature failed early on, and nothing I could do could restore it. I was unable to save the draft to my own memories, either. Now I have a prettily formatted copy of the first paragraph I wrote.