My Version of Asides

Mon November 20th, 2006 at 4:08 pm
Blogging, Web  |  3 Comments

Ben at Open Switch - my new favorite Christian blogger - seems to have started trend with asides. He is at least making it famous because Personified gave him credit for the idea.

Now I like the idea, because I often am surfing and find an article, page or site that is interesting enough for me to want to save and mention, but the post would be really short. I’ve decided I don’t want a lot of short posts. So what to do?

The aside idea put forth by Ben uses a special category that has the asides in it. Since I’m essentially bookmarking these tidbits around the web, I decided to just use my online bookmarks via del.icio.us. To make them blog like, I make sure I add a meaningful description to each bookmark.

So if you look at my side bar you’ll see a list of the interesting things I’ve come across on the web, with a short description. If for some strange reason you wanted to subscribe to these, all you have to is use my del.icio.us RSS feed. I’ll add a link to the template to make this more obvious.

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  1. Ben says:

    November 20th, 2006 at 9:33 pm (#)

    I used to do that exact same thing! You know, you can style them however you want if you’re so inclined.

  2. | Open Switch says:

    November 20th, 2006 at 9:46 pm (#)

    [...] I just finished a marathon of responding to the dozens of comments here after driving 12 hours from Atlanta to Chicago to visit my parents. Thank you all for your great thoughts on the many different issues. A few things caught my eye today on this site: I’m someone’s favorite Christian blogger o_O, I frustrated a friend by forgetting to add her back into my blogroll (sorry Hannah ), and last but not least someone purchased a link on my blog that links to … my feed o_O. [...]

  3. The Happiness Workshop Brisbane says:

    August 31st, 2008 at 12:10 am (#)

    Thanks for the post, something to ponder on

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