Hearty thanks
I'm learning on the job here, but I'm sure getting a lot of help from my friends, and new acquaintances.
Tech help
First up, I've been busy adding new features and prettying up my blog. Most of the improvements come courtesy of good advice from my online friend MC (pictured, sort of.) His Cutlery Kills blog is a thing to behold.Among the improvements:
- Added a separator graphic between entries (image stolen from my dear friend Pary ... please forgive me!)
- Added Technorati tags to items
There's a great page on how to do this - it involves using Firefox and clicking on two links (one to add the Greasemonkey extension and one to install the Magical Sheep userscript.
It's really easy, and a nice feature (why doesn't Blogger have this built in?) An added bonus: it lets you change the time/date stamp of your posts. Not that I'd do that, but still.
It apparently takes a while for tags to start showing up in Technorati (even after pinging them), but all seems to be in order now. Unfortunately, it seems Technorati doesn't like the "gor[b]" tag. I figured that if I used non-standard text I'd end up with problems sooner or later, but it turns out it's sooner. Sigh.
I considered changing the blog name to my runner-up option, Gorblog. But that's already being used by a fella called David Gorman. So I'll stick with gor[b] for now, but stop using that tag. Be damned I'm going to re-edit all the old posts to remove it, though.
- Added the "recent comments hack"
This one comes from BloggerHacks. Again, a feature Blogger should have built in. One very minor drawback is that you have to pick a certain date display format for the comments to show up in the right order. Ah well, I win some ground with the tags hack, lose some here.
Promo help
Updating the Citizen's Arrest item, it seems Jay Rosen is either satisfied or bored with our conversation about citizen journalism. So to amuse myself, I've rented Citizen Kane on DVD.
However, our conversation (some say pi**ing match) caught the attention of official CBC blogger Tod Maffin at Inside the CBC. Thanks for the props, Tod! (Particularly for mentioning my CBC.ca prehistory column, which involved actual journalism.)
Perhaps because of Tod's link, I've also caught the attention of CBC mysterioso blogger Ouimet at the The Tea Makers.I'm listed under CBCers who blog - though there must be more than eight of us. In fact, I know there are... but maybe there are only eight of us dumb enough to use our own names.
Ouimet also mentions my CBC.ca prehistory article in the very interesting Bend it like Gardener item.
Which is nice, because now that the celebrations are over, we had to work rather hard to find a way to get to the 10th site. It now appears when you click on the new About CBC.ca link in the footer of CBC.ca.
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2 Comments:
Hi Paul,
Yes, it was Tod's post that introduced me to your site. I think you're off to a great start so far.
Personally, I'd love to see more CBCers blog about their work. They don't have to draw blood. They just have to tell us what it's like, what's on their minds, and what's on their plate. I wish there were more of them.
So to that end, I made a "CBCers who blog" list on my own site, to draw attention to them. I know that it's not complete, but I also know not everyone wants to be on it. They might want to keep their blog or their job a secret, or they might not take too kindly to my "endorsement."
Also, some of their blogs are bloody boring.
Usually I write them and ask them if they want to be added. I didn't do that for yours, but I got the feeling you wouldn't mind.
When I started Tea Makers, I didn't know anything. I learned the hard way, just like you are. I was lucky that some guys helped me along, like Robin Rowland and Tod and Matt Watts and Joe Mahoney and a few others who shall remain anonymous.
Since then I've tried to encourage the development of a CBC blogger community, which hasn't always worked out.
But the very least I can do is link to the good ones.
Thanks for the shoutout man.
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