Cathy Nelson’s Professional Thoughts

Thanks James for the personalized attention with a comment on my last post. I hope it’s okay that I am making a post out of this, b/c I feel Edublogs really needs to get special attention for trying to make me understand the dilemma with Bloglines. I cleared out my Bloglines account today and fixed up my feeds in Google Reader, so we’ll see if this post get’s updated in the “mine” folder of Google Reader.

As an Edublogs user for a while, I know there have been growing pains, on both sides of the desk, yours and mine. But I’ve been loyal, and have really pushed Edublogs on the new bloggers who ask my opinion.

So I post this to show my readers that Edublogs does try to take care of their bloggers. Thanks.

Hi Cathy, As you would see from the forums we’ve been following this up with Bloglines for some time now via emails, support tickets and work on our servers.

They operate an extremely unpleasant and inefficient way of scraping feed content: http://ma.tt/2006/06/bloglines-dos/ and have yet to modify or work around it in the last 3 years… in fact they only staff member there who did help us has since left.

I’m sure that you’ll find all about these sorts of challenges when you set up and manage your own WP site, not to mention when you try to configure it to have the features Edublogs does.

And incidentally you don’t ‘have’ to pay $ to be a supporter, it’s optional, and $25 a year would generally cover only a few months worth of hosting.

Kudos to James Farmer’s team and Edublogs all around.

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