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Better comments system?
I’m noticing a lot of the blogs I read are using more sophisticated comments systems than the default WordPress one I am using. Is there a standard emerging? Or close to a standard that I should be considering to use here instead of the default? Or if no standard what are your favorites and why? I’ve taken a look at some of the plugins available and they see interesting but I’d rather only change my comment system once. Any suggestions?
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Reading Content
The web is full of wonderful, amusing, and interesting information and discussion. Sometimes though it can be a bit overwhelming, especially to newcomers who are just starting to get the hang of twitter, blogging and such. I use two tools to help organize the content I enjoy reading. The first is Google Reader which I’ve been using for a couple years to keep track of blogs. This online app allows you to subscribe to blogs and easily tell which entries are new or that you haven’t read yet. It can even notify you when more static websites are updated. I‘ve talked a lot about Google Reader in the past. Over…
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Should have taken a screenshot
I have a fake site (http://www.verbivault.com/) to support one of my unsold stories. Anyways the other day I went there and noticed that all the Google ads were in Italian! (Probably because of the verbi part, I guess?) But whenever I’ve went there since then I haven’t been able to see that. I didn’t realize that whatever parsing Google did would choose language specific ads but apparently it does. Will post a screenshot if I ever see it again and maybe someone can translate it for me.
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Inline Links?
I’ve stumbled across a few recent discussions, mostly on twitter, with people commenting that they don’t like inline links inside of blog posts. So I went and did some snooping, finding a couple blogs talking about it. Basically some people find the inline links distracting. Other people don’t have a problem with them. What are your thoughts? Hate inline links? Love them? Don’t care? I’m leaning towards keeping one or two inline links on the most relevant content — the stuff people would most logically want to click through to, say the actual book or story being discussed in the post — and any tangential mentions would be listed as…
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Website tweaks
Made a few changes to the theme I’m using on this site. Let me know if you like ’em or not. 1. Added a comment count on the main screen so it is easy to see which posts have had activity 2. Posts older than a day or so will have ads appear in them 3. Weekly I’ll rotate a post in on the header. This will be my featured post of the week.
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Feedback on new look
The theme I’m using here (the erudite) is quite different from the one I use over on the yourothermind.com site. Please let me know if you like it or would like for me to try something different. This site should also work nicely on the iPhone and other devices thanks to the wordpress plugin wptouch. I will be importing all my gaming and writing posts from the other site after I’ve had the chance to finish setting things up.
