August 21, 2006

In-House News

Just a few quick B.D. news items. I've deleted a bunch of categories from the blog-roll (mostly foreign blogs) as my original thought to form regional clusters of blogs never really took off (lack of time more than anything else) and so I removed to reduce clutter over to the right. The new main category of blog listings will be named "Blogs", rather than "US Blogs," and I'll re-insert some of the best foreign ones piecemeal going forward. Note too I removed the "Categories" area, as I very rarely organized blog posts via category. Next, apologies if I haven't responded to E-mails of late. I'm way behind (in some cases over a month), and haven't had much weekend time to catch up on the backlog. Finally, a word on comments. I've gotten lots of notes asking me to reinstitute them. I think, on a trial basis, I will put comments up--but only for posts where I think there is a good chance comments will add to furthering debate on an issue. Other times (probably the majority of the time) there will be no comments. I've got little time to monitor them, and as I've said before, this site is likely going to become less 'bloggy' going forward, meaning fewer 'interdisciplinary' features. This is nothing personal, and as I've said, they'll be open on occasion to allow for the often excellent insights readers provide. Still, given scheduling constraints and professional considerations, it's best for me to control the feature so that it's not a constant free for all over here. Hope that's OK.