Making Blog Changes

Alert readers (as Dave Barry calls them) who read posts on the website may notice some changes in the left column and at the bottom of the main part of the page. The latest addition, right above the "Reciprocity" links list, is a new feature offered by Yahoo! Supposedly it displays the current number of links to Writer's Edge zapping about the cyberverse. I say "supposedly" because Google now reports only 417 (it used to be in the 12,000 range--who died?) Technorati reports a high of 254 blogs, and a rolling total of 133 links from blogs over the last 180 days.

Another change is the filler item at the bottom of the posts. It used to be static to a few New York Times book links on a glaring white background. I really didn't like it because you must register with the site to view the linked pages, and sometimes they became unavailable. The current scrolling offerings on a sunny background are a custom feed Google, based on these keywords: writer, writing, literature, books, authors, magazines, and publishing.

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