What I have been is hard at work on some of the backend things to do with the blog as well as some display options. The major thing I have done is finally separated the different types of podcasts that I am involved in and make available here into their own separate categories. You’ll be able to see this by taking a quick look at the reworked Category listing in the sidebar. As well I have set up RSS feeds specifically for the podcasts. You can subscribe to all the podcasts that are available here or you can select which of the podcast categories you prefer best and get an RSS feed for just them. You can find the list of available podcast RSS feeds in the sidebar near the top.
Additionally I have also improved the display within the post about the podcasts so that you can easily see your options to listen to it on the site or even download it for later. The audio display graphics are done for all of the podcasts (didn’t know I was such a chatty bugger) but I am still working on the download links for them. I imagine it will be a couple of days before I get them all caught up but I am doing the most current ones first to make things easier.
That should hold off any more major improvements for the time being (other that the podcast download links) and I think I had better take a little bit of time now to try and get caught up with my backlog of posts that need to be read along with hopefully finding something of interest to write about. I hope you enjoy the improvements and that the podcast RSS feeds will come in handy.
Now that the new look for the blog has pretty well settled into place; other than some minor tweaking it is time to start looking at some other ways to add some value to the blog. One of the big things these days seems to be the increasing use of guest bloggers. Now personally I’m not a big proponent of guest bloggers as I don’t think it does anything to really benefit the person doing the guest post. In most cases it is a single one off or possibly two posts where the guest blogger hopes to get their name out in front of an audience they might not have had access to otherwise.
Well one year ago I decided to get serious about this thing they call blogging and my road to fame and fortune was set – ya – right – okie dokie. Actually it was when I installed a stats plug-in made sure I was signed up for things like FeedBurner and Technorati so that I would have some different ways to gauge any popularity that I might be getting it an already crowded field of technology and the internet.
