tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19384577.post9204522724175849539..comments2024-03-20T19:23:09.857+02:00Comments on Notes from underground: BlogiversarySteve Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11283123400540587033noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19384577.post-89636725692680037422008-12-02T07:36:00.000+02:002008-12-02T07:36:00.000+02:00Happy Blogiversary!Happy Blogiversary!BruceAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16013588487417582411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19384577.post-81020422867503415822008-11-29T06:58:00.000+02:002008-11-29T06:58:00.000+02:00Skylding,Yes I did see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/...Skylding,<BR/><BR/>Yes I did see <A HREF="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7753763.stm" REL="nofollow">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7753763.stm</A>, or actuially a related story linked from <A HREF="http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/Elizaphanian/" REL="nofollow">Elizaphanian</A> -- you see you can put links in comments :-)<BR/><BR/>I actually nearly blogged about it, not because of the story itsel, but because of the message that said "Please turn on Javascript. Media requires Javascript in order to play", which rejoiced my heart, because it shows that the Noscript add-on to Firefox is doing its job, and protecting me from malicious bandwidth-hogging scripts on sites like the BBC that cost me a fortune and enrich Telkom.Steve Hayeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11283123400540587033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19384577.post-40029936821719076272008-11-29T06:49:00.000+02:002008-11-29T06:49:00.000+02:00Bishop Alan,Yes - other things being equal (and I ...Bishop Alan,<BR/><BR/>Yes - other things being equal (and I think they are), more people seem to read my Wordpress blog than my Blogger one, even though the Blogger one hss been going twice as long. <BR/><BR/>One thing that may have caused that, I think, was that Google ignored the maxim "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". <BR/><BR/>They were in a great hurry to add lots of bells and whistles to the program, and in the process of doing that, many of the basic features stopped working, and it took them over a year to fix the things they themselves had broken.<BR/><BR/>That caused a huge migration to Wordpress, and I nearly moved as well. When I started my Wordpress blog in Feb 2007 there were about 600000 blogs there, now there are over 4 million. <BR/><BR/>Now Google have fixed the Blogger software, but the move the other way is slower. And when there was a glitch with Blogger back in May, I moved my family history blog to Wordpress pronto. They fixed it within a day, but past experience suggested that they could take up to a year to do so, so I didn't want to take any chances, and haven't moved that one back.Steve Hayeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11283123400540587033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19384577.post-61543770466015422532008-11-29T06:39:00.000+02:002008-11-29T06:39:00.000+02:00Burning Bush,I thought I explained why there were ...Burning Bush,<BR/><BR/>I thought I explained why there were three different blog sites in the post itself!Steve Hayeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11283123400540587033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19384577.post-85518014388685963902008-11-28T18:30:00.000+02:002008-11-28T18:30:00.000+02:00BTW Steve, did you see this: http://news.bbc.co.uk...BTW Steve, did you see this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7753763.stm<BR/><BR/>It was brought to my attention by http://melangerie.blogspot.com/Magotty Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06039164409659890130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19384577.post-83492241626418223252008-11-28T17:28:00.000+02:002008-11-28T17:28:00.000+02:00Congratulations, Steve. Yours is one of the blogs ...Congratulations, Steve. Yours is one of the blogs that got me to eventually start my own - which will reach its second anniversary soon.<BR/><BR/>And as you well know, our blogging contact bought other people in my life - people who have been the greatest blessing any friends have ever been in my whole life. For that I will be eternally grateful.Magotty Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06039164409659890130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19384577.post-70465041201173676372008-11-28T14:37:00.000+02:002008-11-28T14:37:00.000+02:00Happy birthday!I must confess that I do rather wis...Happy birthday!<BR/><BR/>I must confess that I do rather wish that everyone would use Wordpress, simply because, seeing that I do, I find it much easier to follow comments I make and tags I'm interested in, and I'm also quicker in including Wordpress blogs on my blogroll simply because of the ease of doing so. Presumably Blogger has something similar for its users, so it's a bit like half the world driving on the left hand side of the road and the other half on the right hand side. But, then again, I don't really approve of monopolies, so perhaps it's just as well that there are alternatives.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19384577.post-81049925713279724012008-11-28T10:15:00.000+02:002008-11-28T10:15:00.000+02:00Congratulations, Steve. Your story slightly gives ...Congratulations, Steve. Your story slightly gives the lie to the idea that Blogger gets a higher hit count than other platforms because of the Google connection, perhaps...Bishop Alan Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13879516755776951638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19384577.post-24086814539671265632008-11-28T09:11:00.000+02:002008-11-28T09:11:00.000+02:00Hey Steve!Any particular reason why you have three...Hey Steve!<BR/><BR/>Any particular reason why you have three different blog sites?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com