Welcome to the New OMB Blog

For a while now, the other OMB editors and I have been dissatisfied with our initial blog solution on the main OMB website. It required us all to log into the same account, and we're not thrilled with the blog interface in Drupal out-of-the-box. We found ourselves mostly not making much use of it - which has been a drag because we all have the impulse to whip off a paragraph or two about stuff on our minds on an ongoing basis.

So we decided to just move our blog over to Blogger, but to host it on our own server on a subdomain of our main site. This is good for a variety of reasons, but one of the best is that it makes this blog part of a huge blog social network ... and that network is part of Google's Borg-like complex of annoyingly useful and responsive web tools (annoying because they're a huge corporation and we're a bunch of left-wingers).

This makes it possible for us to invite some of our friends to easily join in this effort with us and make this blog a much more lively place than it has been heretofore. Plus people with any kind of Google or OpenID account will be able to post here; so the discussions will be a bit more uninhibited than they are on our main site.

OMB viewers should check this blog out frequently, and chime in regularly. We expect we'll have a good bit of fun with this offshoot of our main project.

Enjoy!