I couldn't take any more of the war after a while today, so I buried myself in blogtech. I redid the design of my link log, The Midnight Blog, to make 3 columns using CSS. Let me know what you think of it, and if you find any bugs. I've only been able test it with IE 5.5 and Mozilla 1.1 on Win2K. I've been thinking of redoing the design of this site as well, so this is sort of a test run. I have gotten really tired of the relative fonts that took me so long to hack in, so know I am considering going with a multiple stylesheet solution, like Daily Kos and I Me Michael have.
Speaking of comments, I know that I have some regular readers, and according to my referrer logs a fair number of people stop by. Do me a favor and leave me a comment, will ya? While I've had a lot of readers recently, I haven't had many comments. Comments and conversation are a large part of what this is about for me. I don't really care what you say, just react somehow. It's too much work to write all this if it isn't part of a conversation.
Posted by Geodog at March 24, 2003 02:11 AM | 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.
It's hard to add to what you say. Believe me, it is not the proverbial one hand clapping....as Post/NY Times opined this weekend, it is the weblogs, both here and from the Near East, that the most reliable information appears.
Posted by: Reston on March 24, 2003 04:54 PMI, too, often feel the same way, Tim. I know from my logs that many people are reading my blog pages, but very, very few people comment.
We must remind ourselves, then, that for every one comment, there are at least a hundred readers. We DO make a difference, not only in our own lives (writing is a wonderful catharsis sometimes!) but also in others, I really believe that.
Posted by: Adam Lasnik on March 24, 2003 10:23 PMYou asked for a comment so here's one from someone who just started reading weblogs or 'blogs' yesterday. I am delighted to see this new medium and the role it plays as a community builder. It reminds me of my early days of Internet (1994) where the voices of individuals and their thoughts were the primary force. Personal web pages were more common than corporate ones. Active communication is far more rewarding than passive information.
Posted by: Jim DeMarco on January 14, 2004 10:40 PM