The Picasa bug fiasco has finally returned as of this evening. I was relieved because it was fixed sooner than I thought, but it might have been more stressful than I thought because I was a bit sick both physically and mentally.
Picasa bug: “Link to this photo” doesn’t show up
私はブログに写真や画像を埋め込むときには、まずPicasaやFlickrに画像をアップロードしてから埋め込みます。
Well, yesterday I accessed Picasa to write a blog as usual, and to my surprise, the part that creates the code for embedding was not displayed anymore.
Specifically, for example, when you open a certain photo, the
It’s the one that appears in the bottom part of the photo information on the right.
この「写真へのリンク」の表示自体がされなくなり、埋め込み用のコードをコピーできなくなってしまったのです。
Without it, I honestly can’t help you…. I don’t know if I should just wait it out for a while, but I don’t want to wait until it’s fixed… It was a very complicated feeling.
Google Product Forum
そこですぐに思いついたのが、Google Product Forum（※旧ヘルプフォーラム）の存在。
It’s something I’ve used as a reference before when I had a bug with Google Maps.
I decided to take a peek again this time.
It is true that a similar bug was reported.
どうやら「Google+が悪さをしている」みたいでして、昨日はこれといった解決策がなかったのですが、本日午前中に「Google+を解約すると直った」という書き込みがされていました（笑）
But that’s not a fundamental solution at all, and even though I don’t use Google+ that much to begin with, I don’t want to cancel (cancel?) it. I don’t want to cancel (cancel?) Google+, so I guess I’ll just have to wait and see…
I had given up, but when I suddenly accessed Picasa again in the evening, the relevant function had returned.
It may have been that the number of posts on the forum increased little by little and the people in the middle of the forum took action as soon as possible, but in any case, the quick recovery was very helpful.
Use for embedding images in blogs
For me, these online photo storage services are absolutely indispensable for blogging.
Picasaはどちらかというと、写真というよりも画像データ全般の埋め込みソースとして利用しています。例えば今埋め込んでいるようなMacのスクリーンショットなどはPicasaにアップロードして使っています。
Flickrは一眼レフで撮ったような写真、旅行写真を保存用、埋め込みソース用となっています。
Why use external online photo storage?
Of course, you can upload them to the server where WordPress is installed, but if you decide to migrate your blog for ease of embedding or some other reason, you don’t have to migrate the photo data specifically, and you don’t have to change the reference URL of the images.
In fact, when I migrated my blog several times including migration from another company’s service and migration from Movable Type to WordPress, I had a very hard time migrating photos.
It’s not enough to simply change the file upload location. You also have to change the reference in the text. Nowadays, you may think of a way to embed images including path management, but it is still troublesome. Also, it is troublesome to specify the image size.
In that respect, using an external service eliminates all the hassle in this area.
そんな経験から、グローバルで安定的に恒常的にサービスを展開している2つのオンラインフォトストレージ「Picasa」「Flickr」を利用するようになり今に至っています。
