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And now for another post from my trusty six-year old Newton MessagePad via
Radio's Mail-to-Weblog feature. Who says you can't teach an old dog new
tricks?
I spent a little more time looking at The Shifted Librarian Radio
weblog. Jenny has done a great job organizing her content using
Categories. It looks like she posts her entries to both the home page and
a category to make it easier for her readers to sort her posts. She placed
her category menu on the right hand side of her Radio template.
On the left-hand navigation is her "Blogiography" which is a nice way to
give credit to the sources of her blog posts.
Jenny has also provided a nice search feature compliments of Atomz. If you have never used the Atomz
search service, check them out. They do a great job.
Below her posts, she implemented the YACCS commenting
system. Pretty cool. I had never seen this used on a Radio blog before.
Another cool thing: On January 27, 2002 YACCS added Radio Userland
Support. Now when you sign up for a YACCS account, you can specify that
you will be using Radio as your blogging tool. Check YACCS out if you are
interested in accepting comments from your readers.
Jenny also added a nice user-friendly feature above her calendar. Her
"Check this box to open links in a new window" feature is a really nice
idea, although it didn't work for me in Internet Explorer on OS X.
It's clear that Jenny spent a lot of time setting up a method to help
her organize her Radio blog. She took a standard Radio theme and added
nice features to her template that make her log much more user-friendly
than your average blog. Nice work! 1:49:17 AM 
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