Week 4 - Blogger's pitfalls

As you can see, our group has recently been in the process of configuring a Blogger.com blog accessible by all three members, and in doing so has encountered some problems which, at the moment, make Blogger.com a little less appealing for group work.

Firstly, as you'll read in Steve's post, we've had to change our name and during that process we had trouble setting up each member's access to the blog.

Secondly, on creating my own personal account, I noticed that the Blogger.com signup process is a little self-involved for my tastes. By that, I mean that if you create a Google account via Blogger.com, you'll be forced to - at the same time - create your own blog page. This obviously takes up valuable time for those of us who don't want a personal blog, and distracts from the main reason for signing up in the first place -- to take part in a group blog. To solve this, all Blogger technicians would have to do is implement a simple choice option - Would you like to create your own, personal blog at this time?

I had to go to Google.com to create a Google account simply because I didn't want a blog. So, ultimately, at the moment Blogger is not looking like the be-all-end-all solution to group work.