Day: December 3, 2007

Apologies to my non-Blogger readers. Apparently, Google does not want to play well with others anymore.

I’m not sure if this is enough reason for me to leave Blogger altogether — I’m running more than a couple of weblogs off it at the moment — but I am looking into alternatives. Certainly Haloscan is starting to look a lot more appealing. In the meantime, I do hope you’ll consider still commenting, at least to some extent.

The thing I don’t get is: who benefits from this? Does Google really think this will encourage more people to sign up for Blogger accounts, or that their users want to exclude comments from people who don’t?

Can someone explain this? The nomination deadline for the annual Pushcart Prize is December 1. However, if Amazon.com is to be believed, the book with this year’s selections will be available on December 10. That seems like an awfully unlikely turn-around time to me, suggesting that the final table of contents was set long before the nomination deadline. In fact, Amazon is already listing the book as in stock. I don’t see how a nomination that reached Pushcart on December 1 has any shot at making the final cut, quite frankly.

Which is something I wish I’d known when I made my own six nominations last month.