Bring back Ande's Blog!

Dear Friends, last week I sent a request to usms's 2 robs to reopen Ande's Swimming Blog they wrote back the next day but sent their emails to the wrong address so i didn't read their responses till yesterday They upheld the rules outlined in New Forum Features Ande's Swimming blog thread remains closed No moving it to the Work Outs forum and Renaming it it will not be reopened thanks again to those who supported reopening it. I wish y'all the best your training. Take Care, Ande Swimmers can find my workouts from: March 2005 to Friday September 19th, 2008 at: www.usms.org/.../showthread.php Saturday Sep 20th, 2008 on at: AndesSwimmingBlog.blogspot.com

Dear Friends, despite being closed for a month and a half Ande's Swimming Blog is about to pass 200,000 views www.usms.org/.../showthread.php Somehow it still comes up as the top result when folks google swimming blog www.google.com/search my new blog is at: andesswimmingblog.blogspot.com Currently I'm 9 days away from this season's SCM meet in Temp AZ 2 days ago I did my lifetime best in practice 50 y SDK went 23.5 today I swam my fastest (in years) in practice 50 y free went 21.5 I want to see how much I can improve my 50 times from last year and this summer 50 fr SCM 24.69 LCM 24.50 50 fl SCM 26.15 LCM 26.03 50 bk SCM 28.30 LCM 28.14 thanks to everyone who followed/s my Blog Ande

For all those who voted to move the thread back to the general swimming discussions, how many of you voted for Obama - where your vote was a "Vote for Change?" If you answered in the affirmative, don't be ashamed if you feel a bit hypocritical right now. I won't lie to you - I am a fan of the status-quo. But new things are good. They expand horizons and open new doors for new opportunities. Think of 15 years ago, how many of you had internet? Of those that did, was it dialup or always-on? Without the internet, we wouldn't have this forum. Without the always-on connections, Fort Wolf and Stud wouldn't be able to post 80 times a day. I could go on... What most of us outside IT and web development don't always understand is that the status-quo on the Internet is NOT a good thing. Sites need to be constantly upgraded with new features and new software or their users lose interest and move elsewhere (just ask yahoo, altavista, excite, lycos... who lost tons of market share on searches when Google came out), and with them goes sponsors, membership, revenue, etc. Let's face it, most of us are still going to the blog section to check it out, and I definitely see people continuing to use the new facebook despite the "horrible" new look. Change is a part of life - some of it is good, some is not. I'd encourage everyone to take a Mulligan on their blog/new feature judgement and give it some time to sink in. In the mean time, thanks to Jim for keeping us all up to date.

For all those who voted to move the thread back to the general swimming discussions, how many of you voted for Obama - where your vote was a "Vote for Change?" If you answered in the affirmative, don't be ashamed if you feel a bit hypocritical right now. I won't lie to you - I am a fan of the status-quo. But new things are good. They expand horizons and open new doors for new opportunities. Think of 15 years ago, how many of you had internet? Of those that did, was it dialup or always-on? Without the internet, we wouldn't have this forum. Without the always-on connections, Fort Wolf and Stud wouldn't be able to post 80 times a day. I could go on... What most of us outside IT and web development don't always understand is that the status-quo on the Internet is NOT a good thing. Sites need to be constantly upgraded with new features and new software or their users lose interest and move elsewhere (just ask yahoo, altavista, excite, lycos... who lost tons of market share on searches when Google came out), and with them goes sponsors, membership, revenue, etc. Let's face it, most of us are still going to the blog section to check it out, and I definitely see people continuing to use the new facebook despite the "horrible" new look. Change is a part of life - some of it is good, some is not. I'd encourage everyone to take a Mulligan on their blog/new feature judgement and give it some time to sink in. In the mean time, thanks to Jim for keeping us all up to date. Nice Muppet! :rofl: I thought Ande should just post workouts in the Workout section like Jonathan and Tall Paul. (And, yes, I voted for Obama.) Anyway, I crossed the picket line and started blogging. :D I'm not a fuddy duddy.

Actually, since this thread was started I have spent some time trolling the blog section--something I never would have done before. I'm not a blog-fan, but I have found some great workouts from people's blogs, and have enjoyed reading about others' experiences. So in my opinion, the change was/is a very good thing, as it always is. And no, I did not vote for Obama. :thhbbb:

Ande - With all due respect, you need to get over this.

Personally I don't think the blog format lends itself as well to the open discussion and exchange of ideas that we see in the threads. Let me preface this by saying that I enjoyed Ande's blog/thread and my comments aren't about his particular journal. I think Gull is right about the exchange of ideas, the threads are a little better. But I don't think that is the usual purpose of a blog, really. The workout threads can work for that purpose. Blogs are closer to public diaries, with some degree of interactivity. I now maintain one and think it less intrusive than a thread. I would never have started a similar thread because I would have felt it too "in your face." But as a blog, any of the few people who are interested can read it, or not; the fact that you have to seek it out is a plus for me.

I scan the blogs regularly and it would be great if Ande's was migrated over.

Should Ande's blog be returned? Yes, return it to General Swimming-Related Discussions No, I don't want ande to share his workouts on the USMS forum You haven't seemed to grasp that this isn't about you, it's about the way the forum has been reorganized. You've taken this decision personally and been hurt by it. Others have accepted this framework, I don't understand why you have been so reluctant. All you needed to do was to go with the flow, and you could have remained on usms happily blogging away. You've always been such a great friend to the forum. I don't understand the "take my toys and go home" attitude. I'm sorry that you feel this way. Our loss, and yours.

Personally I don't think the blog format lends itself as well to the open discussion and exchange of ideas that we see in the threads. Ande's Blog was arguably the most popular thread on the forum (200,000 views).