Robert K. Brown implemented a nice design upgrade that makes it much easier to see who is commenting on a post and what they are saying. As soon as I saw it I wanted it, and he very nicely took the time to post a how-to on his site. I like this much better than Burningbird's Talkback. It makes the comments more visible, and links the name and what's been written, but without that Total Information Awareness aura that the the Talkback Search by name feature had for me. (Don't get me wrong, I don't impute any evil intent to Burningbird's feature. It seems kind of cool and shiny, as Phil would say, I just think that its social negatives outweigh the positives.)
While it does have some aspects of fiddling while Rome burns, sometimes it's a lot more fun to play with blogtech than to read more details on the disaster that Dubya is leading us into. So I spent most of tonight's blogging time implementing Robert's feature. Cool and shiny, methinks.
Thank you, Robert, leukemia survivor, political comrade, family man, and geek and writer.
Posted by Geodog at February 20, 2003 10:53 PM | TrackBackMy apologies, but my web hoster has turned off commenting, due to a flood of obscene spam bringing the server to its knees. I hope to have this weblog transitioned over to Wordpress in the near future, so that I can have commenting up and working again. Until then, please feel free to send me your comments via my email contact form.. Please ignore everything below this comment.
Thanks, Tim. Glad you like it. The result of lots of little changes over the past six months or so.
So many links! Now I've got to go and spend more time updating my leukemia survivor site, if I know people are gonna look at it again...
Posted by: RKB on February 21, 2003 03:42 AMRobert, with the amount of traffic I get, you are in no danger of being swamped. I linked to it because of your recent posting on the beginning of your odyssey.
Glad you like it, ABR.
Posted by: Geodog on February 21, 2003 11:27 AM