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poor guy, we all still love you, even if a few people forgot to tell you that they were moving. Just think about it this way … at least they didn’t ask you to help move.

I think the key word here is “bosses”. As in I’m the boss of my own blog. Which is a good thing to be.

The ems blogs thing looks pretty cool, i would consider it but it took me months to switch to wordpress and I still prefer blogger. I’m considering going back but my dwindling readership might jump ship for good!

I’m always careful about these things, the advertising imho takes away from the message. The links on my sidebar, Medpedia and EMS 1 haven’t done much as far as increasing traffic, but this was never about traffic to begin with,

Just to clarify though chaps, we all are still the bosses of our own blogs. It is completely up to us what we put up and what we want to say. They organizers who put this network together have never wanted to control the content. On the contrary, without all of our own content there would be no network.

Mark, I hear you on controlling the content and I understand. That said…. there’s just a bit too much going on now on most of them….

Maybe I’m just too old and grumpy to go along with change. Take the new (again) Facebook, I swear every time they touch it they take five huge strides backwards in usefulness. There was a substantial polling after the last big change, with millions voting, which revealed a colossal 94% disapproval vote. 94%!!!! Have they never heard of user study groups?!

Not saying the new format for your blog and the others are Facebook-bad… sorry…. I’m rantling again. (That’s rant+ramble…)

Shutting up.

Happy… as long as you’re here…. and speaking of being crippled….

One of the things that kills me about Facebook is its rampant use of ActiveX, which blocks my ability to do anything other than look at some of the pages. Can’t comment, view lists, or do much of anything there, thanks to the PC security settings at my power company gig. FD PCs are going the same way. Home PC works, but I try to not go online much at home when I could spend time with my family. I imagine school/library computers are going the same way. Why be so fancy with the programming that people get blocked…. can’t they just keep it simple? I see this problem getting worse, not better.

I ‘rantle’ through all this because the same software/security limitation is now preventing me from leaving comments on yours or any of the blogs at the new site. Like Facebook, you click a button… and it just spins. Or sometimes not even that much. Nothing happens.

It’s frustrating. If you notice a dropoff in comments… well I am positive I am not the only one in this boat.

I’ll still read, though.

I honestly don’t understand what happened here technologically and what Michael is talking about (which is fine).

I would just like to echo Grumpy D on a more general point: too many websites try to do too much. This is understandable on a certain level because most of these websites are created and updated by techie types who, naturally, like all of the latest/fastest/coolest software and want to put as much of it as possible on the website they manage. (Disclaimer: we love techie types. Personally, my life would not have been worth living on several occasions had a techie type not intervened in a serious computer problem.)

And the ubiquitous ads don’t help, of course.

But a lot of us visit websites mainly to get information or communicate and don’t share the enthusiasm for the latest/fastest/coolest. So these features too often end up being an annoyance because they slow down (or occasionally freeze) our computer.

This probably also makes us look hopelessly out of date and inflexible. And maybe we are!

Nevertheless, I’m sticking to my view: good point, Grumpy D.

I am still posting in both bogger and wordpress Michael, easy to copy and paste and covers all odds but then I am the odd lady from the UK. Hope you are well now?

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