You know, the side bar. That column of stuff on the right. Over there.
over there
Do you ever look at it?
I ask this for a reason.
Up until this point, the things on that side bar have been mostly for me. I use or look at most everything there. Things that I do not look at or use tend to go away sooner or later.
So if you never look at it, I’ll understand. It wasn’t necessarily meant for you.
But now I have something there that is pretty much solely for people other than me.
There it is, a little ways down, under the heading of “Posts From Other MMO Blogs.”
I’m looking for a better title, by the way. Feel free to suggest one.
In the past I have always appreciated those “posts from other blogs” posts that people like Syp, Tipa, and Gordon do on a regular basis. I have often thought that I should do something like that, but aside from a single parody, I have never managed it.
I’m too introspective I suppose. Or selfish. I am always secretly jealous when one of my posts isn’t included on those summaries. But then I am always secretly jealous when somebody else wins the Nobel Peace Prize or gets crowned Miss America.
Anyway, I decided to finally act on the impulse to point out other blogs posts on a regular basis, but in my own lazy way.
What that new item presents is a selection of links to blog posts on which I have clicked the “share” button in Google Reader.
Google Reader will let you publish an Atom Feed of your shared selections which, due to the fact that WordPress.com doesn’t seem to like Atom, I ran through FeedBurner to turn into an RSS feed so that it would display nicely and in a timely manner there in the side bar.
It is easy and quick for me. It has a prominent place on my blog. It isn’t as good as a post when it comes to directing traffic to another site, but it is better than nothing.
Or it would be better than nothing if people looked at the items in my side bar.
So it is time for yet another poll.
I am also happy to entertain suggestions about the side bar.
The Ancient Gaming Noob 