If you happen to blog on a blogger blog, such as I do, on the predecessor of this blog, you might be a little miffed with what I discovered yesterday, too. And the funny thing is, just two or three weeks ago, I was very happy with the comment change they made over there. They added a box that your commenters can tick to be notified of follow-up comments. That is a great feature. It made me happy. What I found yesterday, rubbed salt in my open Google wound.The lovely ‘upgrade’ to the comments section that I discovered is that the ONLY URL that my readers are now allowed to leave when they comment on my blog is - you guessed it! BLOGGER PROFILE URL’S! That’s it! Even if, say, my friend, Loretta wanted to leave her actual blog url, which is http://retta.blogspot.com - as opposed to her blogger profile URL - too bad! She can no longer do that.

Are you serious, Big G?!

If there is one thing that the blogosphere is about it is a sharing of ideas. A swapping of knowledge, information, support, friendship. This latest move by Google, I believe, shuts the door on a lot of that camaraderie. To me, blogger has always been a part of the big, wide blogosphere. This ‘update’ divorces it from the wider community, making it on par with a MySpace blog. After all, who can comment on my MySpace blogs? Other MySpace users. I like my MySpace blog - I like having an account there, I enjoy the connections, the community, and the fun I have there. And I even see it as a great traffic generator - when I choose to use it as such. But I in no way see MySpace blogs as being a part of the blogosphere. They are separate - they live in their own little world. And that is where blogger will be, too, if the big G keeps up with their nonsense.

I’ve been so tempted to import everything over here anyway. I had planned to do that, eventually, anyway. I am still enjoying benefits of having that blog open, though. And I haven’t been sure if I wanted to give that up yet.  I am seriously putting it in my pipe and smoking it now, that’s for sure!