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Comment Feed added

For those of you who use webfeed readers like Bloglines or Kinja can now read the comments on this blog via the comments feed.

Props to Revjim for making this dumb easy.

Email This

It's important that the visitors have an easy way to share what they read here with their friends. When the site was being designed I tried to solve that problem by including an "Email This" link at the end of every post. Here's how it works, for all you Typepad or MT bloggers out there.

First, let me clarify exactly what the link will do. When a user clicks on it their browser will open their email clinet (if they have it setup) and automaticallywrite the title, excerpt, and link to the post in their email. They write the email address of their friend(s) and send it on it's way.

Place the following code outside of your MTENTRY, maybe next to your permalink:

<a href="mailto:?subject=<$MTEntryTitle$>
&body=<$MTEntryExcerpt convert_breaks="1"$> <$MTEntryPermalink$>">Email this</a>

Easy as can be. Post a comment if you have any questions or read more here. Send me a trackback if you decide to use it.

Pop Up Links

Added user ability to make links on the page open a new window.

This solves the user problem of reading a blog post and getting lost surfing through all those links we tend to include. The code is pretty simple, thank goodness.

I'm not sure yet if pop-up blockers stop the links. If they do I think I may take down the code. I'm afraid that many readers will check the box for pop-ups and not realize that their pop-up blocker is stopping the pages from coming up.