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Unlock Blogger’s video embedding, gadgets and more.

“Early adopter” is what the technology industry calls someone who buys new gadgets rst, signs

up among the rst dozen people of every new web site, and in general considers something “old-

fashioned” after spotting a second person in the neighborhood using it. Sounds cool, you say? Well,

if you want to be an early adopter and you have a blog with Blogger.com, here’s what to do: instead

of starting your blogging day at http://blogger.com, move to http://draft.blogger.com. Although

the design is slightly different than the default, as shown in Figure 10-18, you will still be able to

and type the this HTML into the box—replacing the cx value with your own value, but also replacing

the part in your identier reading “%3A” with a simple colon:

<form action="http://www.google.com/cse" method="get">

<p>

<input name="q" />

<input type="submit" value="Search" />

<input type="hidden" name="cx"

value="014956320774661537761:dwyc9i7r_ag" />

</p>

</form>

Let’s go through the elements of this HTML snippet. The form element sets up a web form to receive

user input. The action attribute species which site the form should be submitted to (in this case,

the Custom Search Engine service). The method get tells the browser to attach parameters to the

URL so that the Custom ...