In the anticipation of ramping back up with blogging this year, I’m doing a bit of housekeeping. I’ve been getting the urge to write things longer than 140 characters at a time, and to keep my content someplace where I have better control over it, prompted in part by this article.
First of all, I’m converting all of my conference subcategories to tags, since they have got a bit out of control with the number of conferences that I attend. I’m using a redirect so that if you had a link to the conference category page before, it should redirect to the tag page, but let me know if that’s not happening. If you follow the comments feed, you will see a flurry of activity, since updating a post causes any trackbacks to be refreshed, which appear in the comments feed.
Second, I’ll likely be changing the theme fairly soon to something that allows (at the very least) nested comments. Last time I tried this, I had complaints from a few people on IE6 saying that their browser didn’t support some of the feature properly, but the percentage of IE6 readers has dropped to 0.1% so likely no longer an issue. Again, if you see a problem with the new theme, let me know.
Third, I’ve trimmed out a number of unused plugins and some widgets from the sidebar, which may improve speed somewhat.
Fourth, I’ve added more sharing options at the end of each post – Twitter, Google+, Facebook and LinkedIn – to replace the Twitter share button that used to be at the beginning of each post.
Update: Fifth, I’m replacing some of the little-used or old categories with tags, but without a redirect since I don’t think that there’s much linking to them. If you have a link to a category that no longer works, either check for the same name in a /tag/ URL rather than a /category/ URL, or let me know and I’ll add an explicit redirect.
What happened to your full-text feed?
Hi Sebastian, what problem are you seeing with the feed, has it reverted to partial feeds, or disappeared altogether? What feed URL are you using? I was moving feeds around in Feedburner and may have missed something.
I realize that when I moved the feeds, I didn’t reset the personalize CNAME record, so if you were using feeds.column2.com/Column2 instead of the direct Feedburner URL, it would have misdirected. Fixed now, please let me know if all is okay, and if not, what the specific problem is.