I've received a half dozen complaints about the slowness of the site due to the technorati widget, so I've removed it for now. I see an improvement in load time. Yay or nay?
Also, to the right you should see an
RSS feed logo from feedburner. I've always had a feed, with a small link provided, but I figured that regular readers should really be encouraged to use this. Of course, the RSS won't tell you which comment threads are hopping, but in terms of maximizing time utilization I think it's a good move. You can always bookmark the Haloscan thread of interest (speaking of which, anyone know a better offsite comment service? I don't like onsite comments because they are liable to take a site down because of repeated hits).
Finally, for those of you down with RSS, I
highly recommend adding a few Google News queries to your feeds. For instance, I have
genetics & evolution always updating in Google Reader (which has some downsides, but I like the total integration with my google home page). You can see the RSS links to the bottom left. The
PLOS network also has an
excellent set of feeds (page down) so you don't need to keep checking on their site for new articles (other journals have them too, but I don't find them as user friendly or value added).
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