Adrian Stott wrote: > Bruce Napier <[email protected]> wrote: > >> You don't have to "subscribe" to a blog, you can comment directly on >> what the guy is publishing. It's a running diary, it doesn't have to >> have a "policy". > > Just take a look at the home page of the site in question. > > http://britishwaterwaysfitforpurpose.blogspot.com/ > > What do you see? > > Top right, two options -- "Create blog", and "Sign in" > > Bottom left -- "Subscribe to ..." > > Those are what the first-time visitor sees, and thus what he may > legitimately think he is expected to choose among.
Those relate to the site in question - blogspot.com. Every blog that is hosted there will have that. If you access this email group via Yahoo there will be something similar - that doesn't mean that we ought to petition Yahoo to remove their name and put Adrian (or Nick for that matter) up there instead. > As to policy and identification on such sites, I just looked up Joanna > Bogle (because I was so astounded by her ignorance concerning > population and sexuality, as revealed on Today this morning). Have a > look at her site: > > http://joannabogle.blogspot.com/ > > Top of the page, front and centre, a statement saying who she is, what > she does, and the slant of her site. Immediately below right, a > description of her (plus a picture of the Pope, but there you go). And, at the top right, EXACTLY the same "Create Blog" and "Sign In" buttons that you are fulminating about above. Because they are both part of the same blogging system. I know you don't understand threading, but the idea that you don't understand the web at all as well rather frightens me.
