Personally, I really like the Blogger navbar that used to appear above this site, it made for some really interesting viewing. But lately, poor old blogger has been hit with a bunch of blog spam and porn, with estimates that 6 in 10 blogspot are either spam or porn.
Personally I haven’t experienced anything near that bad, but the point Will Richardson makes on WebLog-Ed is not missed by me here. It is a problem if teachers that you are trying to impress with blogging happen upon a porn blog by clicking the next blog button in the nav bar. Fatal if a student does it.
So removing the nav bar is the temporary sollution to this unfortunate development for Blogger.
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June 23, 2005 at 11:22 am
Sean
Wow! I did a quick test and 5 out of 10 returned as link spam. Things have gone downhill really fast. I wonder what implications this has for Blogger which is an otherwise useful (and widely used) tool.
June 23, 2005 at 1:37 pm
Leigh Blackall
I think it just kills the entertainment value of the next blog button. More importantly though, how will it affect Google Search?