As you may have noticed from the comments or the home page, things are a little different around here today. Blogger rolled out a new system as I was trying to post my Productive Outs follow-up late last night, and in a case of late-night early-adoption blues, I tried to see what would happen.

The good things: many of Blogger’s features now behave in a similar fashion to Movable Type blogs; individual pages are built for each post and include comments built in instead of as a third-party extension. The permalink system is now based on the article title instead of a long string of numbers, which might be easier to remember if…

The bad things: .. there wasn’t some glitch which had elminated a directory level in some of my posts. So if you see a link that goes:

http://futilityinfielder.com/2004/05/productive-outs-revisited.shtml

as on the home page‘s blog box and you get a “not found,” the proper structure is:

http://futilityinfielder.com/blog/2004/05/productive-outs-revisited.shtml

Another bad thing is that unlike the third-party comment systems, or MT’s built-in one, this one has no field for either an email address or a home page link. I encourage those of you commenting (and I wish there were more of you) to include either one or the other, because I always take comments from those who stand behind them with their “identity” much more seriously than semi-anonymous ones.

Anyway, enough for now. Please feel free to email me if you’re having trouble with any part of the new system, and otherwise, enjoy!