Sunday night meta

Here’s some more stuff to work on and think about…

Blog Roll
I think we should have a section for the editors blog roll (just for sites where someone is either a host or front pager), and then all the rest of the sites we want to link – with sub-sections, or not.  It would be nice if people can put a comment below with the Name and URL of their external sites.  Tell me if you want the link to have your name (e.g. Turkana), the blog name (Great Rift Valley), or both (Great Rift Valley/ Turkana).
Then I can do quick copy/paste from here. 

Add your suggestions for the general blogroll & additional subheadings.  I’m not going to put a limit on the blog roll until I see how far down the page it scrolls.

Other content for side bloxes –
We have the ability to add more bloxes in the right columns.  Look at this site: 
New Nebraska
They have links to politicians, media contacts and stuff like that.  If anyone has ideas for what to put in our boxes (I’m thinking Impeach and/or Anti-War links) post them here. 

Tasks in progress/pending
buhdy – FAQ and grand opening post
OPOL – banner and ? 
ek hornbeck – colors and HTML tweaks
OTB – GoogleAds and others, footer and side bar content

More random notes:

ek, I saw your HTML guide in the draft essay page. Looks terrific!  I ♥ superscript
AND I’m very happy to see that the [] brackets work for URL links!  I was bummed when they took that capability off DKos.

I’m going to be out of town Weds. – Sun at Burning Man (staying at Treehouse Camp)!  There is a ton of prep work to be done so I’ve been running errands and packing all weekend.  Same thing tomorrow and Tuesday – but I’m trying to check in every few hours or so.  It is so hard not to want to sit down and hang out here.  I’m obsessed with this blog already. 

OK  – that’s all I can think of for now. I’ll check back in a couple hours…

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  1. just wanted to say hi and thanks for doing all this work…

    i liked the New Nebraska look…

    and have a great time away… actually staying in a treehouse? that sounds like a great adventure.

    see you when you’re back!!!

  2. Thought of something else.  How do we want to define TU? 

    Soapblox allows two methods:
    1.  After X days
    2.  Sum of last X ratings greater than or equal to Y. 
    Currently set to: sum of last 10 ratings greater than or equal to 30

  3. I couldn’t get on the site all weekend, kept saying Loading….

    I was forced to play with toys over at Dkos.

    1. that’s something to argue about.

      Privately as well as publically, because the balance is delicate and should be hidden so not easily gamed.

    • pico on August 27, 2007 at 07:35

    Swords Crossed – http://swordscrossed

    (Trying to block the html so it won’t come up as an abbreviated link, but the backlash isn’t working.  What does one do in a case like that?)

    I’m fine either with just the site name, or with my username attached.  Whatever you think looks better.

  4. I FP at Green Mountain Daily and of course at Cobalt6…..links are in my sig here.

  5. is the wide format. I think that might be part of what Pinche is talking about….it doesn’t seem..tight and together. And especially right now with the narrow banner it doesn’t fit.

    Should we try going back to narrow for a while and see how it feels?

    Well and the lavender could be darkerish.

    And the back ground seems just a touch too dark.

    I like P8’s suggestion of charcoal mixed in too.

    • melvin on August 27, 2007 at 22:55
  6. can you move it into recent essays??? it’s just a link and that makes it worse and then add to it being on top of opol’s FP … so if you could… thanks!

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