Comments on: Blogger to Bloggers PFO

By: Jimmy Page's Trousers

Jimmy Page's Trousers — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:21:14 +0000

Don’t talk to me about that concert. Pagey’s all smart suits and sunglasses now. No time for a flared trousers with dragons ‘n’ stuff on them. Nope. Faithful old dragon trousers just get left in the wardrobe.

Mind you, seeing the sorts of people that made it there, I’m (almost) glad I didn’t get to go. Have a look…
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/live_reviews/article3031550.ece

By: a. fortis

a. fortis — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:24:45 +0000

The scary part to me isn’t that Google seems to want my internet soul. It’s that I seem to want to willingly give them my internet soul. I can’t help it; I like their services. I like Gmail. I like the search engine, which I’ve been using since 1999. I like Blogger except for a myriad of minor idiocies like the one you just mentioned. And, god help me, I like Facebook.

I think I’ve joined the dark side.

By: DaviMack

DaviMack — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:13:55 +0000

Oh, I don’t know: you don’t seem to be really all that into trolling for internet dates. I just can’t see you fitting into the social networking sites all that well because of that lack of lecherousness.

By: Donal

Donal — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:42:18 +0000

I think the blogging phenomenon on a single format platform like WordPress or Blogger has well and truly peaked and the offerings of Facebook, Bebo, MySpace et al are closer to what most people want from the web.

I think the shakeout over the next phase will see the majority of new users hoovered up into social networking sites, leaving the dregs or the hardcore bloggers behind. So we are left with those who hopefully have more to say or a load of elderly mouthy cranks, like me.

By: Donal

Donal — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:07:03 +0000

You’re welcome Jimmy and congratulations on the concert last night, I heard it was only massive.

By: Jimmy Page's Trousers

Jimmy Page's Trousers — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:20:34 +0000

Thanks Gurrier. I was looking for that Blogger feedback link. Cheers.

By: Jimmy Page’s Trousers » Bloody Blogger blatently blackballs blog blurbs

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:14:12 +0000

[...] off a pretty massive portion of the blogging public. Well, they’ve pissed off me. And the Gurrier. And, from doing an ironic Google search, lots more [...]

By: DaviMack

DaviMack — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:08:17 +0000

At some points it’d be nice to be able to edit the comments … but I’ve just had to contact the ‘author’ instead, to ask them to rephrase, after I’ve deleted their comment. It works well, if you can track them down (which you can’t, always, with blogger, but can with HaloScan – another flaw in blogger).

Actually? I’m glad that some folk have given up blogging; if what they’re really interested in is a virtual club, complete with skanks and freaks, then facebook is their place!

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:09:14 +0000

Good point, DaviMack–I didn’t think about comment ownership. I guess I’ve taken it for granted that I can edit comments on HaloScan if I wanted to, but I’ve never had the need, other than deleting a few trolls every now and then.

Speaking of, I’ve used HaloScan for over four years now and I’ve never, ever had one complaint about it.

Disappointing news about Blogger, though–I think you’re right. I’m more dismayed that people have given up writing on blogs to spending their hours sending fucking teddy bears and Vampire invitations to people.

I say this having hardly written anything of substance on my own blog for the past six months, but I blame that on a heavy work schedule, not because I’m too busy joining Facebook groups.

By: DaviMack

DaviMack — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:15:40 +0000

I’ve added a request to their list – for all the good it’ll do us.

My loyalty to blogger has been partly ’cause I’m lazy – we started our blogs there, and it’s not all that great of a process to switch. The other part, though? That’d be that blogger actually maintains the integrity of comments. Yep – you heard me: I stick with blogger because I can’t change the comments.

For me, the balance (up ’til now) has been that blogger acknowledges that comments belong to the commentor, with each of us having the right to remove said comment. Nobody can edit the comments on blogger, unlike other engines. Yeah, you can go through & fake a comment from somebody (or, you used to be able to, before they changed their functionality), but you couldn’t really edit it, unlike WordPress or TypePad.

Why care about comments? Well … let’s put it this way: I own the space on my blog, and can take comments down, but I do not own the comments, really. It’s a question of ownership … and I think that blogger came down the right way on this issue, which is why I’ve stayed with them.

It’s petty, it’s a minor issue … but it’s all about intellectual capital, and the fact that they did this one thing right meant something to me.

I’ll be reconsidering shortly.