Counter

Once again I have added a counter to the blog. If you scroll way down to the bottom you will see a little bitty multi-colored box. It's just under the TS Elliot quote. Click on the box and you will see our stats. They are small because we're not advertising.

Please, please do not change the template, this kills the counter. You may go into the template and add or delete anything you want, just don't go to the section that says "pick new."

Now that I've said that, is the basic scheme of the template what we want? Do we like the colors? Do we like the basic design. If not check out some of the other templates and see if anything else catches your eye. I'm happy to add the counter coding once more if we decide on something else.

All of this is gearing up to ask if we want to go public. We've been doing some good blogging, and we're writing some good stories, posting some good outside articles/pictures. I think it's a pretty dern good blog, actually. Not a webzine yet, but a fine blog.

I'm thinking about making it a little more public. If we get a few outsiders we could create some good discussion. The easiest way would be to roll through sites like BlogExplosion. I use this on my blog some, and it definitely brings in traffic. If the top article is interesting it will definitely bring in more comments too.

If we all say yes, we can each set up an account with BE, or any of the similar sites. The way they work is you surf various other blogs to earn credits. These credits then get cashed by visitors coming to your site. With as many of us as there are we could easily earn tons of credits in very little time. It would be easy to do at work, simply let it be in the background, and periodically click a link to browse some more.

Yada yada, just a thought.

If we do this, we'll probably want to kill the more personal stuff. Definitely keep full names and any real personal info out. It's up to the individual on whether or not you want to post detailed accounts of your last probe.

Thoughts? Desires? Hateful diatribes?