Well, I've been here at ScienceBlogs.com for a few days now, and would like to reflect a bit on the experience. Overall, I must say, I'm overwhelmingly pleased. I'm a technical moron and my old blog was held together with spitballs and sealing wax. It had big technical difficulties. By contrast, writing here has been very smooth, and it has been much easier to engage back-and-forth with commenters. The discussions following my posts have generally been much better as a result. (The fact that more people are reading and commenting now than before certainly doesn't hurt either.)
I also dig the homepage--it makes it much easier for me to read my fellow bloggers. It brings me into contact with stuff I wouldn't have seen otherwise.
Finally, I know there are plans to grow this site and add new features, but if there's one thing I think we need, it's someplace where a visitor to one blog will see a sampling of the latest posts from other ScienceBlogs.com writers. That would be seriously cool.
In the meantime, though, thanks to everyone for being part of this great blogging experiment.
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im glad that i got to see the last blogg site before the switch so I can compair and contrast. I never even knew that there was this kind of thing going on. Im just glad that there is a place to find out new info on the ID vs. evolution issues. Thank goodness (in place of god, no meta-ethical jargon please) for google.
Yup, commenting on your old place was a pain - no way to format anything! This is way cooler.
"....we need, it's someplace where a visitor to one blog will see a sampling of the latest posts from other ScienceBlogs.com writers"
I was thinking about that all along. From your blog to next blog I have to go through the main page - that it two clicks, instead of one. Either there should be a ScienceBlogs blogroll on the right (black) sidebar, or each blogger should make the "local blogroll" on the left (white) sidebar.
Oh, and the secretive COMBINED feed for all the Seed blogs is:
http://scienceblogs.com/sample/combined.xml
You can't imagine how much difference a "Preview" function in the Comments makes for me. Not to mention seeing the comments appear in chronological order.
John--
I do apologize for what I put you (and everyone else) through. If only I'd known a damn thing about web design, I could have had a much better site. Thankfully, the pain is now over.....
Yes, commenting is much more pleasurable now. Once upon a time, I figured your old site was designed that way as a compromise between not allowing comments at all and allowing free-wheeling comments. I definitely prefer the free-wheeling style here.
It's interesting to see the different reactions between PZ Myer's readers, and your readers - Pharyngula had some features which some of us are missing, while your old blog on the other hand was a step down (technology wise) compared to here. Guess, these blogs are a good middle ground.