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Say Hello to MultiBlog!
The two “sideblogs” on ai—ambivalent images and ambivalent bits—are now being brought to you by the MT MultiBlog plugin by David Raynes. MultiBlog allows updates to one of the sideblogs to trigger a rebuild of the main page of ai. Although this may make no difference to you as a reader, it's a nice change from my perspective b/c it means that any updates to the sideblogs appear immediately and automatically here on the main page. (Previously changes to the sideblogs didn't show up here until I rebuilt this main page, either by adding a new post or if someone left a comment.) MultiBlog replaces the older and less sophisticated OtherBlog plugin. Although I said a while back that I wanted to get rid of the ambits sideblog, that may never happen (or I might change my mind), so in the meantime, this simple upgrade satisfies my need to tweak—for now.Posted February 2, 2005 07:23 AM | meta-blogging
Have you considered building the index page dynamically? That way you wouldn't even have to /do/ rebuilds - when a visitor comes to the site, the page is compiled on-the-spot, from the most current entries...It's a bit rough to implement, but once you fine-tune it, it works beautifully!
What is it about this time of year that makes us want to tweak the blogs? I mean, is it just something about the sheer amount of law school work that we have that mandates a retreat in the form of creative expression? Just sayin'...
Posted by: blm at February 3, 2005 11:57 PM
Yeah, the dynamic pages might be cool, but like you said, a bit rough to implement and not really worth it, as far as I'm concerned. Maybe someday, though.
But mine was just a little tweak -- it took all of 5 minutes. It looks like you've been getting serious about the tweaking! That new booklist plugin is very nice. I got rid of the MT-Amazon business a while back b/c it was always malfunctioning and causing me to be unable to rebuild the page (the Amazon API was always changing or giving errors or whatever). I still haven't found a good solution for a book list, but I have so little reading time that it hardly matters at this point.
Posted by: ambimb at February 4, 2005 07:03 AM
