I've added a new feature to Who Reads What @ blogs4God. The system picks 25 items with only a single reference at random, well pseudo random at least, and lists them on the right hand side.
I just felt it would open things up a bit, away to spotlight stuff that otherwise would get overlooked. Enjoy!
- Peace
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Hmmm, just had an idea. I wonder if that could be possible on the WLW site and have 25 randomly selected blogs that have very few links so kind of help get their name out there.
Just a thought, I don't even know what kind of work it would take to do that but it might be a cool way to help out newer and lesser know blogs.
The previous comment was Christopher of WIT.
Silly me.
We have so many books listed on our page, we're sure to get into that sidebar! How fun!
I just today found my way to Who Reads What via my referrers list, where I showed up as a pseudo random obscure reference. Cool. I like the whole idea of WRW, and that sidebar is particularly handy.
I just had a thought about how WRW works. Would it be somehow possible to incorporate direct permalinks to the places where the books are mentioned on the blog(s) in question? Or maybe that's there and I'm missing it.
Andy - I'm just testing a new version now. look for the
# sign.
- Peace
I meant permalinks to the posts where the books are mentioned on the listed blogs.
That would be nice, but much harder to do. There is no standard mark up for blogs that tells me where a post begins and ends or what the perma link is.
I've been think I could look at using RSS feeds, but that would mist books people list on the side bars of their sites. It would also increase the time it takes WRW to run.
- Peace
Dave
Well you've done great things with just what you have as it is. I didn't know how difficult that would have turned out to be. I'll be reading; love what you do. Thanks.
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