You see the above message sometimes after you have published something through blogger.  The link will take you to your automatically generated Picasa account.  This is something that is very similar to mixing blogger with Google’s version of Flikr.

Now, I do not currently have a lot of images on my Picasa album as I used to keep my images on one of my own servers.  Essentially hot-linking my images from myself as Bloggers former photo album used to be quirky and crashed quite a bit.  I wanted something more reliable than Blogger’s old system that was pretty much only useful for . . . . well  . . .  it wasn’t useful for much of anything.

This looks eminently more useful and after all, it is free and you can’t knock that!

For people posting images to their own self hosted blog through tools like Windows Live Writer, it could even be useful to publish your images to Picasa instead of your own server to help keep your bandwidth usage down and to also benefit from Google’s indexing process which will undoubtedly look at their own picture server service like a teenager stairs at their own acne in the mirror.