Contours

One of the things that I’m a bit envious about with Google Blogger is the sense of community.  Part of this is because everyone can comment on everyone else’s blog using their current credentials, and don’t need to create a new login and account for each new site.  This is a bit harder to do in WordPress, but the Gigya Sociable plug-in helps by allowing you to login using your existing Blogger/Facebook/Twitter, etc account and comment.  You’ll notice the new links to the side.

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After visiting Janet Pantry’s site, I noticed the artist blogroll was live – it had the most recent post of each blog along with a thumbnail.  This appears to be a standard widget in Blogger, but unfortunately in WordPress it’s somewhat hard to do.  After a bit of tinkering with plugins and code, I’ve updated the list on my site to follow suit (like all computer tasks, this was strangely harder than I expected).   I like that, instead of a static link list, it’s a dynamic list of current content.  Hopefully it will generate some more clicks to the sites of the artists I’ve linked, and give them a bit more traffic.  Of course it’s also nice for me to log on and see the latest from all of my favorite blogs at a glance.

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