Terrible, terrible things

I know a lot of us have only recently added comments to our blogs (heck, many of us only recently created our blogs), but if you use BlogSpot it might be worth your while to chack out the new Blogger comment feature instead of the HaloScan one.

• Blogger's comment page will use the same style sheet as your main blog page. Yeah, you can do that with HaloScan, too. See Cyn's comments. But if you tweak your main blog template, the comments page is automatically updated too. There's probably a way to do that with Haloscan, now that I think about it, but I didn't stick with them long enough to figure it out.


• Blogger will e-mail you every time a comment is added, along with the text of said comment.

That last bit is nice if you want to know *immediately* when someone comments on your latest entry. You know, if you're vain, self-centered and crave attention like me.

Speaking of vanity, OneStat has a fairly nondescript stats gathering page counter thingy. I saw it on furitsu's page, and it's pretty neat. I stuck one in my template for the hell of it. Because I have BlogSpot set up to create a unique page for each entry, I can see which entries get the most views, too. That's cool. (But I know YOU would use it to see how many times a certain Opera user reads your page. I understand.)

Still speaking of vanity, Taz installed a "5 people are currently viewing this page" thing on his blog. Naturally, I love the shit out of that idea so I stole it, too. It's at the bottom down there. Go to Nerds On Site to get one if that sort of thing appeals to you. They've got a couple other things there, too. But this is the cool one.