This entry is likely to sound whiny and riddled with complaints. For that, I apologize. However, I do have a gripe with blogger.com that I simply cannot ignore. Luckily it relates rather well to point of this blog: exploring design in society. Score points for relevance.
I've noticed a huge flaw in blooger.com's set up, one that other users have noticed as well. Apart from the limited modifications one can make to the actual layout of their individual blogs (ahem - background image size. Come on.), blogger.com makes it virtually impossible to stumble around the blogs of followers. Say you are on a friend's blog (Person A) and you see the picture of someone you know (Person B) under your friends "followers" section. Your curiosity overwhelms you: you must read Person B's blog. You click and what do you get? Not a link to Person B's blog. That makes far too much sense considering this is a BLOG community. No, you get a small profile for Person B and, if you're lucky, a link section that they have modified to allow you to see their blog.
Does that not seem ridiculous? That a network whose entire schtick is blogging doesn't link blogs directly to profile pictures? Maybe I'm making to big of a deal out of this one annoyance, but it seems like a huge design flaw to me. How can someone overlook the ease of connectivity?
Also, it bothers me that the website is blogger.com yet the blog web addresses contain "blogspot" rather than "blogger" - some consistency and organization would be nice and certainly it would lend legitimacy to the network as a whole. If I had the choice, I would have picked a different blog host.
Come on, Blogger.com. Get it together.
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