Google's Blogger Buzz

Keeping up with chess news already places demands on my time, but I also try to keep up with the underlying blogging technology. That means looking at Blogger.com's Blogger Buzz ('The Official Buzz from Blogger at Google') at least once a week. Here are posts from the last six months that I considered important enough to make special note.

• Add the +1 Button to Your Blog, w/ video
• New tools for handling copyright on Blogger : 1) Streamlined submission tools for rightsholders, 2) Streamlined counter-notice tools for users
• Latest updates, August 1st : Favicon graduates from Draft, Swipe navigation for Mobile views, Support for +1 on Pages
• Blogger’s fresh new look : A streamlined blogging experience, Monitor and grow your audience at a glance, • Update: Blogger’s new look
• Your images never looked so good : Introducing Lightbox • Lightbox update
• Dynamic Views: seven new ways to share your blog with the world, w/ video • Dynamic Views: Update #1 • Chess for All Ages: Classic, this blog; see also Flipcard, Magazine, Mosaic, Sidebar, Snapshot, & Timeslide on the top navbar
• Google Analytics support in Blogger
• Google AdSense & Blogger: An introduction
• Connect to Google+
• Engage with your readers through threaded commenting
• Get a pulse for the posts your readers like most with the +1 counter

+1 button, handling copyright, Favicon, Lightbox, dynamic views, Analytics support, AdSense, Google+, threaded commenting. That's a lot to take in at one go.

Noting these evolutions is one thing; incorporating them on my own blogs is another. I'd like to start with Favicon by re-using the icon from my site World Chess Championship on my blog of the same name. First glitch: 'Please use a square image that's less than 100KB', but my logo is 83x100 and the site where I found the original -- Chess Graphics, WCC logo, Cowderoy.com -- is long gone. Fortunately, that home page redirects to Chess Graphics at Chessgraphics.net. What Favicon should I use for my two other blogs?