Comments on: Blogrolls and Mullets

By: David

David — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:34:28 +0000

I see the difference. That’s much different than what I was trying to do. It also explains why so many of your posts don’t have related items – you’d have to go back through and ad them.

Good luck with that. I love seeing all the things you try and reading your evaluations.

By: Alan Levine aka CogDog

Alan Levine aka CogDog — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:23:06 +0000

Hiya David,

I have more clutter to clean, plus I’ve had the same template for like 4 years ;-)

Zemanta is doing something different from what you are talking about- your plugin relates a current post to others I wrote; Zemanta tries to relate to posts outside of my site.. As I am editing, it is looking at my words and offering suggested links to add, so I selected the ones there, so if thet are not good matches, it is author error… the sources are limited and it is far from full fledged semanticism. They also suggest images you can also use (but they are just tiny thumbs).

By: David

David — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:58:20 +0000

I have always been fighting sidebar clutter by not publishing most of my blogroll. I recently followed your example and put my blogroll as a menu item in my header in one of my blogs. I notice that Zemanta is not giving you related items on many of your posts. I have not used that plugin myself, but if you are not satisfied with it but like the idea of related posts I wrote my own plugin for that which generates related posts based on your post tags (or categories if you prefer that method) - You're welcome to try it out if you are looking for that kind of functionality.

By: Alan Levine aka CogDog

Alan Levine aka CogDog — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:22:13 +0000

@D’Arcy Norman: Well….there you go again… that’s a better solution! Thanks, will copy D’Arcy (again).

By: D'Arcy Norman

D'Arcy Norman — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:54:48 +0000

I periodically dump an export of my Google Reader subscriptions to a static XML file, which I then copy onto my server and use the awesome Grazr embedded app to render a view of the subscriptions.

http://www.darcynorman.net/links/

I’ve been working on removing clutter from my blog – links got dumped a long time ago, and I’m still working on organizing things better into pages/sections/subpages rather than Big Pages With Everything Dumped On Them. Still, even my minimal sidebar stuff feels cluttered. Time to rethink that… what needs to be there…