Extending the Circle of Communication With Asides
After reading about Asides on Alister Cameron’s blog yesterday I was excited about the idea of being able to add shorter posts without disrupting the flow or compromising the the purpose of the blog which is to publish more subtantial and lenghty articles. Asides is I believe originally an idea from Matt Mullenweg, but after looking things over I decided to implement them with the help of the Sideblog Wordpress Plugin. While Alister Cameron (and Matt Mullenweg) have them listed chronologically with his regular articles while using a different design of each to differentiate them have I chosen to keep them out of the list of regular articles and just show them in the sidebar. As I said do I not consider Asides to be part of the substance of this blog, but helpful for publishing what’s new around here, a quick quote or link or similar. Let’s see how it evolves. Something which was very important to me was also the ability to not let Asides be included in the feed. I feel that adding it would have be interruptive and downright annoying to those who have certain expectations when seeing that something new was posted and who when checking it out would find only a fraction of what they expected. Others do it differently so I am curious to see how it works out.
UPDATE: After a few days of thinking about it have I arrived at the decision to include Asides in my feed after all. Firstly does that allow a clear cut between my lengthier articles and the short asides without keeping anyone out of the loop. Who am I to decide what you want to read. Besides will that allow me to use the asides to announce things that also may interest whose subscribing. Secondly is my posting frequency even after including asides in the feed so low that I cannot imagine that it will upset anyone. Personally do I not like sites posting several times a day, but since that won’t be happening here do I think this could work out for everyone.
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