A confluence of recent changes to the services we use for blogging here at stand up for REAL science have required us to leave Blogger and make the switch to WordPress.
The new RSS feed for the blog will be:
http://www.anevolvingcreation.net/standup/?feed=rss2
Please update your links accordingly.
Along with the switch to WordPress, I have also made a long overdue update to the html code for the rest of the pages on the website in order to improve the overall functionality and to standardize the appearance. One significant improvement is the new “Contact Us” page that allows you to send us an email directly from the site without having to open your email client.
All of the old Blogger posts will remain in their current locations (although we also imported them to WordPress). If you currently have a link or bookmark for something we have posted previously using Blogger, it will still work for the forseeable future.
This is not an extinction event. Cheryl and I plan to keep advocating for REAL science in public school science classrooms. We’re simply parting ways with Blogger.
Consider it an evolutionary divergence.
Tags: Housekeeping
Posted by Jeremy Mohn
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on Friday, February 19th, 2010 at 5:05 pm.
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If you have time to respond, I’m interested in what aspects of Wordpress are better than Blogger for you. You could email me if you’d like, or just reply here. Thanks.
Hi Jack,
There were two reasons we made the switch. First, we were using Haloscan for commenting and that service is no longer available. For reasons you can probably guess, we want a system that allows us to moderate comments based on IP address. Blogger doesn’t currently have that as an option.
More importantly, we found out from Blogger that they will no longer be supporting FTP service. That would have forced us to either switch the URL to a blogspot.com URL or to purchase a domain through Blogger. Neither of those were attractive options for me.
I’m really liking the customization that is possible through the newest version of WordPress. If you check back over the next couple of weeks, you’ll probably notice that I have added some new features.
I’m looking forward to interfacing with the new interface. (Is that like a double negative?)
Oh, and it took me awhile to realize that Jeremy’s using the royal “we” – he did the heavy lifting on the switch while I just tried to stay out of the way.
Thanks. I’ve always thought, from what little I know, that Wordpress offered more options. And yes, managing comments is important, isn’t it?