11 Comments

1. Bravo–and I love that search feature. It will be great for checking if anyone else has a post up on a breaking news story.

   This is the free market in action — MA rolls out a value-added service that will attract users, who thereby view our site and its links. I guess we get utils rather than dollars out of it, but man is that he might have joy (= utils), not dollars.

   Hey–what’s with the funky “required” field. Is that to screen out spam comments?

   Comment by Dave — 3/3/2005 @ 7:57 pm

2. Russ (the code-meister) is working on improving the search function and some other minor tweaks. Geoff is really the one who pushed this through the security council, so he deserves kudos as well.

   Yeah, I had some issues with spam and am in the process of determining the best course of action.

   Comment by J. Stapley — 3/3/2005 @ 8:33 pm

3. I love it. Let me know how we at BCC can help.

   Comment by Steve Evans — 3/3/2005 @ 8:46 pm

4. Awesome!!

   Is it okay that I made a button out of the banner at the top and put it on my site with a link? (I didn’t use your original button so as not to confuse an “isle of the sea” w/ the Archipelago members. Hyperlinked text would also work, but an image just jumps out at you. By the way, I’m honored to be one of those isles.) Go see how it looks, Archipelagers, and let me know if it has your approval. Maybe other isles or lands will also promote the MA.

   Comment by Heather P. — 3/3/2005 @ 9:27 pm

5. Heather: Very cool – you get a bonus. I’m glad you are excited to participate. I have created a little banner after your idea (but in PhotoShop, so the compression is a little cleaner):

   http://www.ldsblogs.org/Images/Isles.jpg

   Promoting the MA can only intensify interest in broadening the initial commonwealth. Superlative prose that extols the virtue of Splendid Sun is another great means for such.

   Comment by J. Stapley — 3/3/2005 @ 10:08 pm

6. I’d like you ask you do do as I did (here http://ethesis.blogspot.com/2005/03/alessia-by-wilfried-decoo-alessia-i.html) and link to the Times and Seasons thread with Alessia’s name in the link to increase the chance that a web search in her name will lead her to the story.

   Comment by Stephen M (Ethesis) — 3/3/2005 @ 11:10 pm

7. Disclaimer: We have found that some of the site feeds are not being searched. We are working on this.

   Comment by J. Stapley — 3/4/2005 @ 12:41 am

8. Hey, thanks for the new button, J.! You’re right, yours is definitely a lot cleaner and nicer. (Two obstacles were in my way: (1) I was too lazy to go to one of the campus computer labs to use Photoshop and (2) I’m not that great with images, anyway, because I’m not a visual kind of person, so I usually settle for “good enough.”)
   Wow, T&S picked up on your new site fast. Word spreads fast in the bloggernacle.

   Comment by Heather P. — 3/4/2005 @ 2:54 am

9. We are having some technical issues so the site is note registering, it should be up and rolling ASAP.

   JS

   Comment by J. Stapley — 3/4/2005 @ 11:36 am

10. FYI, MA-meisters: To a visitor unfamiliar with the bloggernacle, apparently the organiziation of MA is unclear.

    Someone who really wants to know everything about the Mormon blogosphere should start here, at the aggregator site LDS Blogs. There’s a rather strange hierarchizing of contributing sites: archipelago, mainland, isles in the sea, other islands and atolls. I suspect this feature is more a result of the inevitable bloggy popularity ranking than of any doctrinal position, but one does wonder. If anyone associated with LDS Blogs wanders over here, I sugest that your “about” page clarify this system.

    Comment by Heather P. — 3/15/2005 @ 5:38 pm

11. Thanks for the heads up.

    Comment by J. Stapley — 3/15/2005 @ 5:51 pm