This is a small update for those Beta Testing BlogSpirit Version 2, and generally for anyone interested in news about the new BlogSpirit.

We’ve received verbal and written feedback concerning the functionality of BlogSpirit. From this feedback, we’ve noticed that:

1. Most of you would like to immediately view the blogs. This business of selecting feeds you’re interested in is not working.

2. Others however, love the ability to customise their own feeds, it gives them the control they need.

3. Some people are not getting activation emails.

4. Internet Explorer functionality is still an issue. This one we know about, but we’re working on it.

5. Adding new feeds is not as intuitive as we’d like it to be.

So, in order to move forward, we’re going to backtrack a little and change some things slightly.

1. We’re going to keep adding more blogs to the current BlogSpirit.
We had stopped adding blogs to the current BlogSpirit, because we were worried it would get too saturated too fast and we’d have too much information on the home page.

But, seeing as taking care of the issues in the new BlogSpirit will take some time, we’re going to keep adding the blogs we’ve discovered until the new BlogSpirit is ready, so be a little prepared for blog overload.

2. We’re combining the current BlogSpirit with the new BlogSpirit functionality.
The initial reason for creating a new BlogSpirit was to add some flexibility and customisation to the thousands of feeds that will eventually come up. Users would be able to follow their favourite authors instead of being bombarded with too much information.

However, gauging from the feedback, we’re better off first populating, then filtering later.

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Winding up, if all this seems like too much jargon, worry not, you’ll see the changes in a few weeks.

Cheers!