QuakerQuaker.org, new home to the blog watch
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I've moved the Quaker Blog Watch material to a new website, QuakerQuaker.org. It's more-or-less the same material with more-or-less the same design but the project has become popular enough that it seems like a good time to send it off on its own. I hope to find ways of making it more collaborative in the near-future.
You can subscribe to the QuakerQuaker Watch via Bloglines or to the daily email by following the links. If you're already following the Watch in a subscription reader, you should change the source of the feed to http://feeds.quakerquaker.org/quaker if you don't want to miss out on any future innovations. If you have the Watch currently listed in your blog's sidebar you won't have to change anything.
At some point when the dust of the move has settled (and I have the new Quakerfinder.org launched as part of my FGC work), I'll take a moment to wax philosophical about the evolution of this project and will toss out a few ideas about where it might go in the future. In the meantime, let me know if anything is broken, confused or grammatically mangled.
A kind of retrospective history of the project is available on the quakerquaker thread of the Ranter.
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A quick note, dear Martin, to say how much I have enjoyed seeing the fruit of your leading and faithfulness emerge here and elsewhere.
Blessings,
Liz, The Good Raised Up
BUT WHERE'S THE BABY THEO SAYS "AH-HA" SOUND FILE!?
Hi Dave Carl: Oh no!, you're right, it went missing. The page was up ("Theo says Ah-ha":/martink/theo_says_ahha.php) but the audio got left behind in the transfer of the Nonviolence.org server a few months ago (which was tangentially related to the QuakerQuaker.org development in that I wanted to have my websites consolidated). Now it's back, ready to upload into the shiny new IPods everyone got for Christmas...
All's right in the world then. Sounds like he's making a good start on vocal ministry!
Hey Martin,
Your blog watch sidebar seems more dynamic these days... the little headlines appearing first, followed by summaries nudging in underneath.
To use the geekster buzzwords, are you cooking with extra AJAX goodness these days?
-- Mitch
Hi Mitch:
<geek_alert> no, no AJAX, I'm afraid. Most of the changes you're seeing is simple CSS, which I'm getting more adept at in my sometimes-random self-taught way. The other visible change is that the feed runs through Feedburner, which adds the Technorati links (it also allows me to do non-intrusive tracking, e.g., now I know which posts people click on).<geek_alert>
The change that's not visible on the Quaker Ranter sidebar (but is at QuakerQuaker) is that the link selections are now collaborative. I asked some of the bloggers to join with me in this. No one should be offended that I didn't ask them: the folks I asked were those I consistently saw were commenting on great posts before I had seen or linked to them.