One of the really cool things that Movabletype allows me to do with my templates is to put different widgets and things in the blog, in this case my sidebar, depending on what category or page you are looking at.
I actually have cut down on the amount of things in the sidebar over the last few months and some of the feedburner stuff in the footer of each post is going to be gone soon as well. I am attempting to use mostly local content to speed up the page display.
I have gone against that decision though with what I have recently added in. Depending on what page you are on it will start showing relevant news feeds. I only have it on a couple of pages right now. If you are on this page, the main index, you will see a widget down my sidebar with videos that have something to do with Georgia. If you are on, for example, one of the Natalee Holloway category pages, there will be a newsfeed related to Natalee Holloway news.
I work so much that often times I miss out on reports and stuff that I might post on or at least be interested in and this way I get to see some of that stuff.
I am also going to be redoing my site soon, but nothing noticeable here. Mainly for phone/blackberry/pocket PC since I am away from home so often. I want to be able to post from my blackberry and while I can currently do so via email/flickr/twitter I want something a bit less painless. I also want to be able to get to the comments and be able to reply to those as well from my phone.
Nothing like tooting your own horn...
I haven't looked at any of the stats on the site lately other than tracking some of the search terms that are bringing people here and I notice that I hit several 'milestones' if you will recently. I have over 5100 posts over the last few years, somewhere in the same vicinity of comments and 300k+ visitors (not page views, that's closer to 500k). Sometimes it amazes me that people don't have anything fucking better to do than come here. That reminds me. I have to head on over to Cafepress at some time soon. I had designed a shirt last year and ordered one to be sent to Imp, one of the users here, when I hit 200k visits and the damned thing never got there. I've been fighting over it with them and I have about decided to give it up and do something else. The shirts weren't all that great anyway, I think I may use a local guy for them now, as well as a couple of bumper stickers and some business cards.
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