Index to All AH Cartoons
June 19, 2007
Just to let ya know, especially you adorable feed readers, that I’ve changed the sidebar so that there is now a link to an index of every American Hell cartoon.
From there you can go directly anywhere, without having to scroll and page through categories or archives; you can even go to hell.
And I’m working on improving the current dodgy navigation. Thanks for your patience.
Stumble it!
Not being educated in the vernacular, how does one become an “adorable feed reader”? I’ve yet to achieve ‘adorable’ by any other means, so maybe I could try this. If not, I still love the drawings and will continue to read-however I’m doing it now.
Angie, it’s one of those things that sounds more complicated than it is.
Google Reader and Bloglines are the 2 most popular ways for reading feeds. A feed is kind of a broadcast of one’s blog posts. You subscribe to a blog’s feed (just by clicking and pasting) and can organise your feeds into folders like you might with email.
If you go to that Google Reader link there is a video (less than 1 minute) there explaining the concept Google uses to describe their reader as the “inbox for the web”.
My feed is in the sidebar linked by the word “Toons” under the heading “Feed”. In Irish KC it is the Feedburner counter up the top beside that square orange symbol which, though not always orange, is the universal standard symbol for feeds.
The end result is that you get to read all the things you want to read, but from just one place, your own place – the content of your favourite blogs (and anything that publishes a feed like news sites) comes to you instead of you going to many different sites.
It’s a very efficient way to read a great number of blogs – I am subscribed to well over a hundred via Bloglines, and I read them every day. You can always click on through to the original site when you want to make a comment, and then follow comments by keeping an eye on the comments feed. In some cases you will have to click through anyway because some sites opt to publish only partial feeds, the beginning, or worse just the heading, but you’ll find your own way to use feeds that you’re most comfortable with regardless of what the general consensus might be.
Usually, even if you only read half a dozen blogs a day, it will save you time. But there’s absolutely nothing wrong with continuing to read by method you currently are, and in truth it may even suit you better.
Up to now I’ve just taken my favorites and organized them to folders in, well, my favorites. I’ve subscribed to your feeds and a few others just to test the waters.
Thanks for the lesson, Eolai.
sweet