Bob Stepno's Other Journalism Weblog

Monday, July 25, 2005

OK, one last post: While I'm taking a blog break, you'll find plenty more to read at the new Rocky Top Brigade site, which includes an multi-dimensional aggregator of recent posts by the more than 100 Tennessee bloggers listed in the page's left column as "Brigadiers."

Multi-dimensional? I mean that the aggregator lets you browse the opening paragraphs of the latest 20 posts on RTB members' blogs, or just skim the headlines of the most recent 50, a nice touch for speed-readers and speed-linkers. And there's a three-column version containing the headlines of the last 10 posts by all of the members, even those of us who don't post often enough to make the shorter "most recent" lists very often. (That's more than 1,000 headlines, so the page may load a little slower than the others.)

Just Johnny set up the impressive new RTB site in record time, working in suggestions from a bunch of beta testers over the weekend, while other RTB stalwarts have created a discussion board and more, as SayUncle, the new RTB coordinator, explains in the first post on the new site.

Along with the rockytopbrigade.org aggregator, other cool features of the site include an OPML list of all the Brigadiers, which makes it possible to subscribe to all of their RSS feeds at once or repost the list as a "blogroll," a "comment" feature that allows a reader to subscribe to any item's comments by e-mail, info about RSS syndication, and (naturally) a page that lets new Tennesee bloggers join the gang.

OK. That's it. I'll still be in town, but other than any last-minute editing to today's posts, this blog is officially on vacation. See you in August!

11:17:00 AM