Blogger Upgrade
I just upgraded to the new version of Blogger (still beta). The two immediate advantages I've seen are labels (something I've envied for a while), and that email notification of comments actually includes the TITLE of the post now.

For the labels, you can click on the labels at the bottom of most blog posts (not this one... some just don't have a good category) and see the (possibly gigantic) list of past articles with that same label.

Not that I can really imagine why anybody would WANT to read all that crap, but hey... the option is available. I guess there are a few good ones in there.

As to the email notification thing - in the past, if you commented to a post, Blogger would let me know a comment has appeared so I could respond to it. Which is nice. Except it didn't tell me what POST it was in. Sometimes it was obvious (and usually it's a recent). But if you commented on a old post, I might have to spend a lot of time hunting it down.

It's also useful for me to weed out the occasional spam comment that appears in old blog posts. Man, I hate those. The word verification thing stops most spammers in their tracks, but a few determined weasels do get in.

Anyway, please let me know if you've found any problems with the new setup.

And if you are REALLY bored, here are some of the label categories:

Roleplaying Games (Why is it I talk more about RPGs than any other genre here?)
Interviews (Interviews here, and indie interviews on other sites)
Indie Evangelism (Why Indie Games are so freaking awesome)
Game Announcements (News about our games, our affiliate games, and the games we like!)
Retro (Nostalgia, old games, stories of game development from the 90's)
Biz (Business & the game industry)
Mainstream Games (Yes, there are other games out there besides indie...)

Have fun!
- posted by The Rampant Coyote @ 9:53 AM (Permalink)