Bloggin' Stuff

Post #992

Alex the (Sometimes) Bloggin’ Cat

Alex says he’s tired of swimming in the muck of trying to get Word Press to do the things he wants it to do with his blog—you know, Alexicon: A Feline’s Life with his Human:

So the furball wants me to help him switch is blog to Blogger which I may eventually do but I tied up at the moment with other bloggin’ stuff, like the new blogroll on my sidebar (see below) and working on ideas for the 1000^th Nick’s Bites post and trying to visit and read the couple hundred blogs I attempt (poorly) to keep up with.

Sooner or later I’ll help Alex create a new blog on Blogger. At the moment, however, I don’t think that the cat who owns me really cares that much. He’s having too much fun playing in this gorgeous Spring weather: at the moment it’s 77 F outside and the sun is brightly shining and the furball is, well, see for your self:

The New Blog List

I’ve been transferring all of the links to blogs that I read to the new Blog List thing that you can find in the Layout section of Blogger and you can see on my sidebar. Mine isn’t finished yet: there are still bunches of blogs to add, most of them beginning with letters that follow the letter M in the alphabet.

I don’t know how many blog links I have added to the Blog List or how many there will be if I ever finish. I do know that a lot of the blogs I used to read no longer exist. That’s sad. And some blogs have changed their name or location.

Anyway, adding blogs to the list is how I’ve been spending my time—a lot of time!—recently other than taking naps because these spider bites seem to make me tired.

If you are interested in the Blog List, here are the release notes from Blogger Buzz

Today we’re releasing a new page element for Layouts blogs: Blog List. The Blog List improves on our Link List page element by using blogs’ RSS and Atom feeds to show update times, post titles, and snippets.

Use a Blog List to put a blogroll in your sidebar, or make a few to categorize the blogs you read. The Blog List works well for any page that has an RSS or Atom feed, so you can get creative: link to news sites, podcasts, Twitter streams, search results, or anything else with a feed.

Here’s a quick summary of the features that a Blog List gives you:

• Link to blogs, web pages, and feeds from your blog’s sidebar, with an optional favicon
• For pages with RSS and Atom feeds, Blog List can show last updated time, post title, and a snippet of the latest post
• Sort links alphabetically or by last update time
• Show all links, or hide some behind a “show all” link
• Import subscriptions from Google Reader
• Blog List links are visible to search engine crawlers, so your blog’s PageRank and reputation flow to those you link to

Too Many KATZ

I subscribed and have been receiving five or more KATZ (LOL Cats) in my email every day for months. I am overwhelmed by them! There are too many to share on my Too Bad It’s Monday posts and they are too cute not to share. So, here are a few more to give you a smile or two and it ain’t even Monday: