I have no problem with blogs just need to click on the tab at the top. I do not look at external ones though. There is some really cracking work going on in them stuf not in threads.
The main difference is that visitors to blogs can't post images in them. One chap almost took over one of my layout threads at one point so I started blogging but there seems to be far less feedback so switched back to threads. If only one could link them easily.