A little blog housekeeping:

I’ve set up an RSS feed for Biased BBC via Feedburner (with a redirect from our previous blogspot provided RSS feed). Those who wish to use RSS to read Biased BBC can do so by clicking on the link in our right hand panel. So far, according to Feedburner’s daily estimate, we have around ~250 daily readers that we didn’t know about before, in addition to our normal web readership, now up to around 1,900 daily visits according to Sitemeter, an increase of around 500 since the beginning of July.

Secondly, Mr. Moderator points out that the comments on our open comment threads are in danger of getting out of hand once more since our crackdown at the beginning of July on the dozen or two who’d come to regard the blog as being secondary to their ‘right’ to comment on whatever they wished, whenever they pleased, even in someone else’s virtual living room.

We love the richness, variety and exchange of views that reader comments and feedback bring to Biased BBC, so please keep commenting. But please understand, particularly on the open comment threads, that we do need to prune back comments from time to time to keep them manageable, readable and on-topic for everyone.

Please don’t take moderation decisions personally or abuse Mr. Moderator for his thankless but necessary task. He does it as gently and reasonably as he can, and, as with traffic wardens (the old yellow peril sort in particular), we should appeciate him for keeping the virtual traffic moving, even if he does tick us off when we need “just five minutes” on a virtual yellow line ourselves!

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