Site Update

I’ve reshuffled things to make the blog a bit leaner, faster to load, and to eliminate seldom used features. I find that people seldom use blog archives, so I shuffled it off to a separate page accessible through a big fat icon. I don’t think people use the static categories as often as they might, so I replaced it with a category cloud, which displays frequency of posting info through font size.

Most traumatic was my elimination of the Arizona blog roll. I am persuaded that huge blog rolls are the Edsels of the blogosphere. It is a pain to keep them reasonably updated, they don’t reflect what I’m actually reading and linking to, and for these reasons among others readers just don’t use them. I may use some form of social recommendation in the future, but for now, I am just going to rely on LeftyBlogs.

I promoted my Delicious links to a higher position on my sidebar because that is a fairly reliable guide to what I come across that I find worthy of note on a regular basis, even if I don’t have any comment on the matter. Likewise, my Now Reading list is what I am actually in the process of reading on dead trees, and my Amazon Wish List contains some of what I hope to be reading soon.

Thanks for reading Blog For Arizona.