25
Sep 09

What else would you want from Urban Yukon?

Simply adding features to Urban Yukon won’t necessarily make it better, and might make it worse, but it’s the beginnings of a discussion about UY’s purpose and future.

Also, asking the question gives me a chance to play around with the WP-Polls plugin.

If you want to add something, just put it in the comments and I’ll see if I can slip it into the poll after the fact.

What else would you want from Urban Yukon?
Choose as many as you like.

  • Gather together multiple recent posts by a single author so that they don't crowd out other postings. (60%, 9 Votes)
  • Ability to view older blog postings than just those shown on the front page. (47%, 7 Votes)
  • Search that can find matches in posting contents. (33%, 5 Votes)
  • Categories for member blogs (e.g., business, techie, family, news). (27%, 4 Votes)
  • "Identicons" alongside postings to highlight the author. (27%, 4 Votes)
  • Automatic Twitter tweets for every new posting. (20%, 3 Votes)
  • An Urban Yukon presence on Twitter, Facebook, or whatever. (20%, 3 Votes)
  • Content from other sources: Twitter, Flickr, Facebook (?), or whatever the latest and greatest doohickey is. (20%, 3 Votes)
  • RSS feed for all postings that appear on the site. (20%, 3 Votes)
  • Nothing. Leave Urban Yukon just as it is. (20%, 3 Votes)
  • E-mail subscriptions for relatives that just can't quite figure out RSS. (7%, 1 Votes)
  • Other (add a comment to explain). (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Whatever you do, let me control how the site works and looks myself. (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 15

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Some of these are easier than others (the last one’s especially simple), but each is certainly do-able.


23
Sep 09

Welcome to the Urban Yukon Blog

As you may have read, Geof asked someone to take over hosting and maintenance of the Urban Yukon site. I volunteered, and now the site runs from my web service.

My name is Dave Rogers, and I write the What He Said blog, a member of Urban Yukon for a couple of years now. I run a one-man computer programming business, when I’m not somehow occupied with the College (new site — check it out).

I had a few changes in mind for Urban Yukon, but I think the site really belongs to its bloggers, and so I’m asking for suggestions that I can hopefully implement. Although, while I’m pretty good at the background coding of websites, I’m not much of a graphic designer, so I’ll need help for that.

This blog is the first of my changes: something to spread the word about the Urban Yukon community of bloggers. Changes to the site, coming meetups for fellow-bloggers, and new member announcements will be posted here.

And many thanks to Geof from all of us for starting Urban Yukon in the first place and encouraging blogging in, and about, our glorious territory.

Please send all questions, comments, suggestions, and concerns to: urbanyukon strudel yukondude full-stop com.


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