Really trivial tweaks of our time.. and the value of this blog. You’ll be astounded
For anyone who also runs a blog, this is more relevant. Anyway, I’ve tweaked the “recent comments” thing (it’s on the right-hand side, further down) so that it now
- shows who commented (OK, it already did that)
- shows what post they’re commenting on - NEW!
- if you hold your mouse over the post name, shows the first 15 words of the comment - NEW!
(though do you think it should show more words from the comment? Tell me) - shows the URL of anyone who puts a URL in the comment field - NEW!
This has been done by a judicious bit of tweaking of the “Recent Comments” plugin, available here.
Oh and by the way..
My blog is worth $0.00.
How much is your blog worth?
Isn’t that great?
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November 4th, 2005 at 10:01 am
The question you have to ask yourself before tweaking your pages is this : how many people are actually reading the page through an aggregator and so miss out entirely on the design goodness that you have invested time in? Since it’s techies who read you (apart from fans fo that band of course), I bet a lot of them use a feed reader and so will never see the changes you’ve made.
November 4th, 2005 at 10:23 am
Well, I enjoy doing it as an intellectual exercise :-)
And I do visit the sites of things that I read through my aggregator from time to time. I agree, posts about tweaks are generally meaningless through an aggregator. And of course the “value of the blog” thing shows up anyway.
However in an aggregator it can be hard to know which comments are for which post, making it harder to follow the logic, if there is any, of an argument.
November 4th, 2005 at 12:28 pm
I click through from NetNewsWire! The recent comments thing is a really nice expression of the community aspect of blogs.
Switching the visible text to the comment post makes it less clear what people are saying. It doesn’t always make it clearer what they’re talking about, either: the title of a post might not always describe its content particularly well, and their comment may have gone off on a tangent.
I don’t mind it, though.