If a fistful of euros aren’t quite enough for your daily needs, hop over to A Few Euros More.
A Few Euros More is having a trial run because the authors here wanted more, too. On the one hand, discussion about our posts is one of the best parts of the blog. Talking with our excellent readership, having people react to what we write is one of the most gratifying parts of writing here. On the other, discussion tends to taper off rapidly as a post slides down the page. So sometimes we are reluctant to post a short thought on a news item, or ineed short thoughts on almost anything, because we don’t want to push a good discussion further down the page. Which means we’ve been missing the chance to blog on different things.
Hence, A Few Euros More. It’s in the experimental stage, though it probably won’t stay in beta quite as long as Google products seem to. We’ll find out what we like, what our readers like, and adjust accordingly. Right now, it’s full of quick newsy thoughts just waiting for comments. Thoughts on the experiment itself can come here.
Update: One way reader/bloggers could help is by adding a link to A Few Euros More in your sidebar, and of course, if you like the idea, mentioning it on your blog.
Unfortunately the comments on the new blog are not working. Besides that, David’s post on the threat to the gulfstream from global warming are worth a wide readership. In case I missing something, you didn’t provide a link to the press story for readers:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1602579,00.htmlbb@finkle.net
Yep, Bob’s right. The anti-spam thing doesn’t seem to work on the comments. Or put another way it seems to be non-existent.
As Doug says, this is really a suck-it-and-see experiment. Obviously most of the posts will move on so quickly that there will not be a lot of comments, but one possibility *might* be to move posts that attract comments and interest onto the main blog.