Posted by Dustin on 08.09.2009 at 6:07 pm

I wanted to make a quick post on ways to follow the blog (aside from the web) as I’ve added a new feature this weekend.

Aside from visiting it via the web, the other “old school” way is to subscribe to the feeds. You can do this through a feed reader (Google, Feedburner for example) or simply bookmark in your browser the appropriate feeds. In the lower left corner under the “Meta” heading you can find the “Entries” and “Comments” feeds to bookmark via your browser (or add to a feed reader).

Months ago I set up a “Twitter” account which you can use to follow the blog. You can find my “Tweets” in the side bar on the left, as well as a link to the Twitter page there (to use to follow). Anytime a new blog post goes out, so does a tweet with the link (these don’t appear in the side bar though).

Finally this weekend I added a check box to the comments form for each post. If you submit a comment and check the box, you’ll be notified of additional comments to that post. You’ll get these via email, and there is a link in the emails to manage your post-subscriptions as well (should you not want to get further emails on a post). Every post times out and closes to new comments after 30 days of no new comments, so you won’t get random emails in a year via this plug-in 🙂

The only thing I haven’t added yet is a way to be notified via email for new posts (mainly cause twitter or a feed reader do just that).

Post Note: I had to remove the “email followup comments” temporarily. The plugins I tried weren’t working well, so I’m looking for a new one!

Post Post Note: In order to get the “email to followup comments” subscription working I had to change settings on the blog that require people to put a valid name/email into their posts to get a comment posted. I had this unchecked, but almost every blog/site uses it. Your emails are never posted publicly!