Catching the Late Train (and other news)

Okay… since I found myself hanging out on Twitter yesterday, and being interested in all the tweaking that was going on, I’ve decided to climb on board and join Bloggiesta. The laptop’s decided to crash today and so is off to the shop, so I don’t know how much I’ll actually get done, but I’m going to put a bit of effort into it anyway.

So, what I’d like to get done:

  • clean up the layout of my page — got rid of the blogroll, inserted recent comments feature
  • decide if I want to get rid of my long master lists of books and go to labels on the sidebar, or some combination of both… took the plunge, and put up a labels, which includes a link to my master lists.
  • add genre tags to my blog (in addition to age-level tags) — I added a few. Maybe I’ll add more later.
  • change the blog header/colors (I’ve had this one for at least 6 months — maybe a year — and it’s time to move on) — done
  • clean up my feed reader

Other than that, I’ll see what else I’m inspired by you all on Twitter to do.

Other news: I’ve also signed up for Mother Reader/Lee Wind’s Comment Challenge 2010. My goal (other than at least 5 comments a day) is to visit at least one new blog and leave a comment there. I’m going to be picky about adding them to my feed reader, though.

And one last bit of news… I meant to share this earlier this week, when I found out, but Betsy at Fuse #8 is doing a Top 100 Fictional Chapter Books Poll. I’ve already sent my list in (which I stressed over… but what about?! and I forgot?! I wish I could send in two!), but you have until January 31st to come up with your top 10 and send it in.

Okay, I think that’s about it… I’ll continue to update this post with bloggiesta items throughout the day/weekend.

9 thoughts on “Catching the Late Train (and other news)

  1. I've noticed a lot of people giving up their blogroll or not having one to begin with. In blogger, it's easy to find out which blogs we follow by looking at our profile page. That's what I've always done. I'll check back next week! (Comment challenge)

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