Comments on: PC Mag 10-18-2005: Dvorak on blogs http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050924/2415/ Technology, music, video, art, news, reviews and muse on the web Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:32:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: TDavid http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050924/2415/#comment-22447 TDavid Sat, 24 Sep 2005 21:48:26 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050924/2415/#comment-22447 Yeah, Adam, he's talking about a calendar like Scoble has that allows you to navigate the archives by day/month visually. Can be nice for looking at entries made in a specific day of a specific month. Yeah, Adam, he’s talking about a calendar like Scoble has that allows you to navigate the archives by day/month visually. Can be nice for looking at entries made in a specific day of a specific month.

]]> By: Adam http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050924/2415/#comment-22444 Adam Sat, 24 Sep 2005 21:27:54 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050924/2415/#comment-22444 > John says of the blog elements in the closing section: “… to me the most important are the calendar, > the archive list and the search box.” What the heck?! 1) I have never, ever used the calendar feature on a blog, and I doubt many others have either. Unless he's talking about archives-by-month or something? I always found the archives-by-day thing (what I presume he means by a calendar) to be a useless frill. 2) The archive list. Okay, I can see how that's handy in one or more forms. 3) Search box? Out of 2,575 visitors (not page views, VISITORS) over the last three days, I've had exactly one search done on my blog. One. And mind you, my search box is near the top right of every page on my site! In other words, unless my blog is massively atypical, I'd guess that a search box isn't exactly a top priority ;) > John says of the blog elements in the closing section: “… to me the most important are the calendar,
> the archive list and the search box.”

What the heck?!

1) I have never, ever used the calendar feature on a blog, and I doubt many others have either. Unless he’s talking about archives-by-month or something? I always found the archives-by-day thing (what I presume he means by a calendar) to be a useless frill.

2) The archive list. Okay, I can see how that’s handy in one or more forms.

3) Search box? Out of 2,575 visitors (not page views, VISITORS) over the last three days, I’ve had exactly one search done on my blog. One. And mind you, my search box is near the top right of every page on my site! In other words, unless my blog is massively atypical, I’d guess that a search box isn’t exactly a top priority ;)

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