Sherman Oaks blogs of note ... and a note on Blogger

Besides Zach Behrens' In the Oaks, take a look at From Sherman Oaks and Stuck in the Valley -- all well worth keeping up with on a regular basis. Gotta get them in my blogroll. They're there now.

All three are on Blogger, if that means anything to you. On that subject, Blogger -- which is owned by Google -- is busy converting all of its blogs to a new system that will eliminate the wait whenever you "publish" a blog entry and will instead build blogs "on the fly" whenever a reader goes to the blog's Web address. And you'll have to open a Google account to do it (to post a blog, not read one).

Now I've already got a Google account (which I use for Google Groups), so it's no skin, you know, but I'm wondering why they're messing with a good thing. Well, maybe they're making it a better thing. All I know is waiting for my blogs to publish isn't on the top of my "Blogger people, do this" list. At the top are Safari support and being able to change blog designs without killing out the existing blogroll (maybe that last one they are fixing, but who can remember?) They do promise better blog designs in general, and if blog design and blogroll modification become independent entities, I'll be pig-in-shit happy. The other big thing, to them at least, is that the new Blogger will make it easy to have "private" blogs with "access control," so you can have a family- or business-based blog to which only certain people will be admitted. Probably of use to some people, since the mechanics of blogging are probably one of the better ways for organizing and disseminating information on the Internet.

But I digress too much, so good night all.