Blog Directory
Hey powers that be, is there a Typophile Blog Directory which lists those that blog here at Typophile? And if there isn’t one - could you please create one and perhaps add it to the Forums directory?
Tanks
Hey powers that be, is there a Typophile Blog Directory which lists those that blog here at Typophile? And if there isn’t one - could you please create one and perhaps add it to the Forums directory?
Tanks
23.Aug.2007 12.08pm
This is the closest we have, which lists the most recent blog entries from all users:
http://www.typophile.com/blog
25.Aug.2007 11.02pm
That’s too bad - it’s lame.
26.Aug.2007 9.57pm
Well, it must have sounded like a good idea when first proposed. But then, blogs (like anyone other web-based personal showplace, u, u, u/me, me, me) do tend to be lame.
Gerald
26.Aug.2007 10.06pm
The best way to follow the blogs is either to follow the tracker which will show you all new threads (blog or otherwise) and all new action on the threads. Another option is to subscribe to the blogs using a reader such as Google’s.
27.Aug.2007 7.45am
Hiroshige...if you have the ambition, you could start a Typophile Blog directory at a place like http://www.bloglines.com/ or just maintain one in the wiki here.
The /blog page is just for folks using the blog tool here, right?
27.Aug.2007 12.37pm
Yes.
All I use mine here for is to post up notices that my Flickr page and/or my “real” blog has been updated — never have figured out why this is the sort of “feature” anyone would ever use for much else here, given the preponderance of free blogs (Blogger, WordPress, etc.) out there that are infinitely more customizable....
Would someone please address why the blog seems to be “better” than the late and lamented IM?
27.Aug.2007 1.28pm
@Hiroshige: Sorry the lack of a blog directory is lame to you, but in the future perhaps it will be more valuable. For the time being, forum directories are our priority.
We have noticed a huge increase of interest in the blog feature (totally optional) since we opened it up to all users (understandably so). Most importantly, the blog feature has allowed a lot of new users to have a venue for their thoughts and comments, when sometimes they may feel intimidated by the big boys in the forums — a common issue.
The Typophile blogs are in no way intended to be a replacement to WordPress or Blogger. I’d imagine there are a lot of people here who would simply like a place to vent typographic frustrations to a specific audience, when maybe their other blog about knitting sweaters for kittens isn’t exactly the place to do so.
The IM feature was really kind of lame and doesn’t benefit as many people nor add anything very unique or valuable to the site. A small handful of people used it, it was terribly buggy and a little annoying, IMHO.
27.Aug.2007 6.47pm
No need to apologise to me Zara, I didn’t mean to sound harsh.