If you haven’t noticed, as part of the new upgrades to The BRAD BLOG, the Voters Unite “Daily Voting News” items that John Gideon faithfully shares with us each day, are now featured in the sidebar of every page, instead of on the main page index. The latest DVN will always be available in the right sidebar, allowing for one click access to both the complete list of the day’s notable voting news links and/or the entire DVN archive.
There are a number of reasons for the move, among them, my hope that it might help to get the DVN in front of even more eyeballs, since more folks tend to come to The BRAD BLOG each day via links from other sites to specific pages here. Those folks might otherwise never see the DVN at all when they visit.
It will also allow us to post more to the front page without fear that it’ll be moved quickly down the page by the each day’s DVN. The move, I hope, will also have other added benefits that will hopefully become more obvious in the future.
For now, I hope you’ll take the time to note John’s very helpful link to VotersUnite’s voter registration info database from yesterday’s DVN. The VU database contains convenient info for many states on how to quickly check to make sure you haven’t accidentally been purged. Like John, I urge you to make use of it now (and again, once or twice, between here and November), as opposed to waiting to be surprised on Election Day!
As ever, your input, thoughts, suggestions, ideas, complaints and wish lists for the site as I continue to strive to improve things whenever I’m able to find a minute or two to do so are always very welcome!
I’ll be on the road for a few weeks, as mentioned previously, so may be here a touch less than usual (if I’m lucky!), but Jon Ponder of Pensito Review, Arlen Parsa of The Daily Background, the very busy Alan Breslauer of HotPotatoMash, John and undoubtedly others will be jumping in to to keep things more than lively around here in my “absense”.
And speaking of keeping things lively around here, below is a bit of very good news, in the form of an inside joke for frequent BRAD BLOG commenters, courtesy of yesterday’s USA Today. Enjoy…
Brad:
I read you through Google Reader. I never go to websites unless I want to leave an occasional message.
I love your essays and the Daily Voting News and I hate to think I’m going to miss DVN now. Please find a way to get it back or available through Google Reader.
Maybe I should subscribe to John Gideon’s site as well? Thanks
The Bradblog takes very long to load now on my old notebook. Could you pls reduce the number of stories on the homepage? Also, the “categories” list is very long, which makes for a lot of scrolling. Wouldn’t it be more convenient if it was on it’s own page?
Amaliada –
The DVN *should* still show up in the normal RSS feed. If it’s not doing so, that’s likely an error in programming (somewhere) on my part.
I will look into it, and see if I can figure out what happened. Didn’t change anything there (as far as I knew), so thanks for letting me know about that issue!
Gray –
I’m surprised it’s taking longer to load now. Many of the changes I made were meant to reduce the load time, and have done so on all the browsers I’ve tested. What browser and OS are you using?
Also, at the top of the Categories list (as all the other lists near by it, like “Recent Stories”, etc.) there is a little +/- button. It should be a “-” button if all the categories are listed. Hit it, and the list will disappear until you actually need it (when you can get it by hitting +).
Let me know, of course, if that doesn’t work for you for some reason.
DVN is in RSS.
https://bradblog.com/?feed=rss
Hmmmm….not sure if I should congratulate 99 or defend her…I mean, she was pretty smart to begin with…pretty good at kickin’ butt, too!
Hey, wait a minute…I thought Brad was the REAL super-secret agent!
*sigh* … I’m hopelessly confused…
That’s really a sucky picture of me!
I guess it will help throw off the KAOS agents though….