Open House

Welcome visitors from the New Bcc (and anyone else who wanders in).  Here's a quick tour of my site with a few comments on Typepad posting.  I've been blogging at this Typepad site since March 2004.  Typepad features new to Blogger bloggers include:

1. Typelists: Pre-formatted blogrolls, termed "typelists," can display books and CDs as well as links.  See my right sidebar for a few book lists.
2. More . . . :  When posting, you can go down to the "Customize the display of this page" link and check "extended post" to open up the second box.  Only what's in the first box shows on the main page.
3. Comments: Typepad offers great comments management.  After a thread is started, you can access comments from the "edit post" screen for all your posts--they are all listed below the body of the post.  In addition, you can close comments on a thread at any point, if desired.
4. WYSIWYG: The new interface is kind of flighty, but it seems to work.

If I can think of anything else, I'll add it here.

Comments

[Dave]

I should note that mere "authors," those invited to join a Typepad weblog (as opposed to the "managing author," the one who runs it, which is actually the term they use) can't make Typelists or add links, books, or CDs to existing Typelists. I suppose you could email the Managing Author with a request to form a Typelist entitled "Aaron Now Reading" or something, and give him 5 book ISBNs to put in the list, but that seems a bit unwieldy. Ideas?

[Ronan]

Dave, me likes look of your site. me always liked it. me hopes you will not feel any strange urges to fix what ain't broke.

[Ann]

Dave, your place is my favorite in the bloggernacle, for reasons I have already explained.

[Dave]

Thanks for the nice comments, folks. My ideas about changing the look or content of the sidebar were about the new Bcc site, which just migrated to Typepad. I'm pretty happy with the overall look of DMI at this point--I haven't fiddled with the format for a couple of months.