Paul, blogger of TotallySynthetic and column writer at Chemistry World, replied in my other science blog about ResearchBlogging.org:

Perhaps I can explain why I didn’t / don’t use ResearchBlogging.Org when writing on my blog, TotallySynthetic. In the past (perhaps a year ago, or a little more), I started using research blogging on every post I wrote. Given that more than 95% of my posts relate to a specific paper, it seemed to fit my purpose rather well. However, I must say that I found the forms used to identify papers awkward, and the output HTML annoying as it messed-up special characters in the authors names. Couple that with a paucity of referred traffic and the fact that the ResearchBlogging website was frequently unavailable – I soon lost interest. Has much changed?

ResearchBlogging.org has recently improved the paper searching form. You can not only type in DOI but also search with key words to find a paper in the website. It has also cooperated with PubGet. And I seldom encounter server failure when using ResearchBlogger.org since I started using it. But indeed, the web site is still not user friendly enough. They should rethink the human-machine interface design. In fact ideas of improvement need not to be new. Releasing plugins for Wordpress, Blogger.com and other major blogging service is good enough to allow more users. The current way often creates a who’s-helping-who or who-needs-who confusion.