Blog maintenance

I've been fooling around with the blog's format a bit in my spare time (read: when I should be grading). Soon, I hope to provide an accessible list of post labels that will make it easier to search the archives. Blogger makes an easy-to-use widget available, but I'm afraid of switching from my html template to the "new blogger" layout function. I made the switch for another blog and lost virtually all my personalizations.

On this blog, that would mean a lot of lost work -- especially links (blogrolls).

In any case, while playing around I discovered that Blogger offers a service to consolidate the RSS feed source. After entering the feedburner address, my reader count jumped from single digits to about 70. After more than four years of blogging, I certainly hope that this is a more accurate count of my readership. I can't believe that the lower number has registered for such a long time....sigh.

With enough time, I may also change the blog banner. Donald Rumsfeld and Tony Blair are much less important public figures now than they used to be. Plus, all the photos are really small.

Informed reader advice on any of these matters would be much appreciated.

What else could I do to improve the blog?


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PG-13: Too much coverage of Cheney

According to Mingle², my blog is rated PG-13:

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Here's the best part:

This rating was determined based on the presence of the following words:

* suicide (3x)
* dick (2x)
* torture (1x)

OK, the blog is explicitly anti-torture, as the sidebar makes clear. So what's the problem?

I cover Vice President Cheney too much -- and solo Iraqi bombings -- and thus did not earn a PG.


Hat tip: Dan Drezner, who runs a less family-friendly blog.


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