Honestly, I did try several different weblog hosts before I settled on this one. The others either had obvious shortcomings or were difficult to navigate. Blogger.com seemed pretty reasonable among the choices. There's probably something better out there, but I'm not an expert on this and I didn't find it.
Anyway, now here we are -- a dozen or so of us have created accounts and figured out how to work this thing and I'm realizing it has that one pretty serious shortcoming. One of us keeps a notepad with the number of comments on each topic so they can figure out which have new comments. Computers are supposed to be smart enough to keep track of that for us.
The good news is that Blogger has upgraded itself. I can convert this blog to the new format which uses RSS/Atom.xml. We can get free RSS readers which will poll the site and notify us when and where a new topic or comment shows up. It's just like an email reader. (Fret not, you don't have to know what RSS or Atom.xml is. I can help the Windows people set up an RSS reader and hopefully David and Cholada can help the Mac people.)
But in order to access the new version of weblogs, you have to have a "new" Google account (as opposed to an "old" Blogger account). I hope that when all of you signed up for this, that you created the new Google account.
How will you know?
When you log into Blogger from the main page, which link do you click: Old Blogger or New Blogger? If you aren't sure, go to www.blogger.com and give it a try.Please drop a comment in this topic and let me know which account each of you have. Hopefully most of you are on New Blogger. If so, I can convert the blog and we'll be in better shape. If not, your old account can be converted to the new style. But we'll want to get everyone's done before the blog is converted.
Thanks for your patience and understanding.
MK
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I actually just go straight to our page - you know, kulkas.blogspot.com
Me too
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