As you may have realized, I’ve made some changes to the blog today. I’ve added a new page called Social Me, I’ve added a link to my photostream at Flickr in the far right sidebar, but most importantly, I’ve added a new comment system.
Before this update I had a box for my Twitter updates just below the Shared Items box. But I decided to remove that box because it didn’t really fit in with the rest of the site. But instead of removing Twitter completely, I’ve now added my FriendFeed under the page called Social Me. Now, FriendFeed doesn’t just show my Twitter updates, it also shows updates from all the other social networking sites I’m a member of. For example, it’ll update when I Digg something, upload a photo to my Flickr account and when I add a bookmark to my del.icio.us account. I don’t want my site to be all bloated by all the social media sites I’m on, so this is a great solution (at least in my opinion) to prevent that from happening.
As said before, I’ve added a new comment system. It’s called Disqus and can be used on many platforms, like Blogger, WordPress, TypPad etc. The reason why I decided to do this is because I just don’t like Blogger’s current comment system. I want the comment system to work like WordPress’ comment system, with just a normal comment form, like this:
You don’t have to sign up for a Disqus account to comment, however, if you want to have your own avatar, you will need an account. Having your own avatar is good since it somewhat highlights your comment. If you don’t want to sign up, do NOT check the “Verify my post” box, if you do, Disqus will ask for your account information.
I hope you’ll like this update, if you have any questions, just use the new comment system! If you don’t know how to comment, you’ll find my email address in the picture above.
Cheers!
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