Google updated Blogger a couple of days ago.... What does this mean for this blog?

Individual posts or static pages that have 200+ comments have to implement some workaround solutions so the most recent comments are visible.  This blog has ~2,300 comments.  Approximately 1,100 are embedded in the individual posts.  Another 1,200 are located in the COMMENTS section of this blog.

Google has rolled-out a nested (or threaded) comment feature that allows for a more "conversational" comment structure.  This is all good except for the fact that WE have to figure out how to make all the previous comments visible to everybody while taking advantage of the threaded comment features.

We'll have it all sorted out by the end of the weekend.  As an interim solution we will simply create another static page that allows for free-form posting of comments (the same way we've had it for the past 1.5 yrs).

Google gives us some headaches at times.  Nevertheless, they've allowed us to reach many thousands of individuals in 75 countries (and 741 cities) across the world... for free.  We are guessing that Wael has paid significant amounts of money to his fake bloggers and generated significantly less traffic.  We base this statement on the fact that any web search including any combination of terms related to WAMo BAMo will provide results that  feature a fair amount of references to this blog in the TOP 10 results (in contrast to the sporadic appearances of his fake bloggers BS in the same results).

It's a Green World... Simple concept.  All the countries shown in green on this map have been the sources of visitors to this blog.

 Bottom line regarding Google Blogger... We're not going to complain!