Here's the deal..

(A very rare post from Brad)

Our blog is going private (secure).  There are a couple of drawbacks of doing this, but I think I have some good solutions:

1.  We will need to give you access.  This one is easy to solve.  If you are listed on our blog-list or have commented before, or we know you read our blog we'll give you access.  If we missed someone, it won't be intentional, so please just let us know by commenting and we'll "hook you up" with access.

2.  (The bigger issue in my opinion).  Private blogs no longer notify our readers when a new post was posted.  You know what I'm talking about.  You have to actually click on all of your friends' blogs to see if they have posted anything new.  No more notices in your blog list (or RSS reader).  What a pain!  So, I think I have a solution for this.  Here's what we plan:

I have created another blog that will be our secure blog.  So the blog you are currently reading will continue to be public.  The purpose in keeping a public blog is to notify you of new posts on our private blog.  So when we post something new on our private blog, we'll put a quick note in this blog (the public blog) that a new post is available to read and we'll put a link to it.  All you need to do is click the link and assuming you are logged in, you'll see our private blog.  PROBLEM SOLVED.

Now I think I'll take the rest of the day off and take a nice long nap under a tree.  :)

So that is what we'll be doing.  I would really suggest that all of our friends who have private blogs do the same.  It will make it so much easier to get notified when you have posted something new.

There are a couple of ways to do this.  One is to create a new private blog like we did.  There is an option to "Export" your blog from your old blog and then "Import" that blog into your new private blog.  Your readers won't need to change their link on their blog, because it will already link to your public blog (old blog).  The other way is to create a new public blog and notify everyone to update their link to your new public blog in their blog-list (or RSS reader).

Hopefully this make sense.  Please let me know if you have any questions, or if you need some help.  It took me all of 2 minutes to create a new blog (you can have multiple blogs tied to your blogger account).  Hopefully in the future Blogger can solve this problem of notifying only those who have access to your blog of you new post, but until then, this should work.

VIVA MULTIPLE BLOGS! Eyy yaye ye ayy aya yyea  yaaaaa!!!