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Suggestion - A "What's New" blog / podcast
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sra
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Just thinking it would be really good if there was a "What's New" page.
I don't read as much of the main site as I'd like because there's sooo much information and it's hard to know where to start. So I end up only going there when I want to look at a specific article.
I know it tells you in the email when articles are updated, but there's so much in the email I usually end up skimming over those parts, whereas if a What's New page were updated daily, it would be part of my routine to see what's new on the site every day or so and read the latest article.
All the better if it linked to the latest tip.
If it were done using blog software then the page would have a lots of advantages:
Apart from being easy for MSE to update, there'd be an RSS feed. A lot of people are much more likely to subscribe to a feed rather than subscribe to an email. Personally the Tip is the only email I receive but I subscribe to a lot of RSS feeds.
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... and all the extra traffic that come in fromt the places a blog pings, Technocrati etc
I don't read as much of the main site as I'd like because there's sooo much information and it's hard to know where to start. So I end up only going there when I want to look at a specific article.
I know it tells you in the email when articles are updated, but there's so much in the email I usually end up skimming over those parts, whereas if a What's New page were updated daily, it would be part of my routine to see what's new on the site every day or so and read the latest article.
All the better if it linked to the latest tip.
If it were done using blog software then the page would have a lots of advantages:
Apart from being easy for MSE to update, there'd be an RSS feed. A lot of people are much more likely to subscribe to a feed rather than subscribe to an email. Personally the Tip is the only email I receive but I subscribe to a lot of RSS feeds.
EDIT
... and all the extra traffic that come in fromt the places a blog pings, Technocrati etc
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Sounds interesting. :beer:Torgwen..........
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Aren't all my ideas?Fran wrote:Sounds interesting. :beer:
If not good, certainly interesting
It might help change the site from something a lot of people might visit weekly to visiting daily - with something new every few days to explore.
And sooo simple to implement. (heck you could set up a blogspot + feedburner account in 5 minutes if you didn't mind doing it off site)
Could even probably make a box from the feed to put on the homepage so that there's something new regularly on the front page 0 -
you could then host said blogspot on this site (dont ask me how :eek:, but i know its do-able) know thyselfNid wy'n gofyn bywyd moethus...0
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Sorry to bump this
But pretty soon most people are going to be using Internet Explorer 7 and wanting to know what these "feed" thingies are.
It'd be nice if the very first one they add was one for MSE. A "What's New on MSE" feed would be great for this.
Right now we can only point to Martin's Mutterings or the boards (I'm in the process of prettying up the RSS thread and am going to put up a guide specifically for IE7ers)
A What's New blog could detail:
Updated Articles
Martin's Appearances
When New email's available
Important Annoncements
Being done on blog software means it's easy to ping a lot of services (automatically, through feedburner, or by pages like this) so that MSE would show up on a lot of social network searches 0
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