Tweaks and changes to the blog
I've been working on a number of tweaks and changes to the blog over the weekend.
Leaving aside the minor esthetic tweaks, there are a couple of substantive additions.
First, all blog posts now have a corresponding Technorati search link. Clicking on the link for any given post opens a search on Technorati of all blogs that reference that post. It's an easy way to track the cross-blog conversation about any given post. It's effectively our replacement for Trackback, which was disabled on this site some time ago because of abusive spammers and which isn't a feature that's available to all blog software anyway. Since we want to be part of and encourage conversation about Houston media, politics, and life, it only seems right that we incorporate some mechanism to track the same.
The second addition is the Local Blog Talk addition to the sidebar. That addition gives us a place to highlight blog posts in our general area of interest (Houston media, politics, and life) without turning the main blog here into an InstaPundit-style link aggregator (there's nothing wrong with that, it's just not what we are trying to do here). If it proves useful, I'll eventually add skins to support archives and such (there's only so much time to devote to this hobby!).
The goal with both of these substantive additions is to encourage cross-blog conversation (blogversation) about our city and topics of interest to us. Links are our friends, Houston bloggers (something the new -ist kids seem slow to learn, so we'll return the favor in their case).
In tweaking and upgrading, I've modified existing templates and skins, so if anything seems to be broken, please let me know. And if you have ideas how to promote further blogversation, those are welcome as well
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 12/11/05 12:48 PM | Announcements | Print | Comments (8)
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