Member Interests Cloud

I’ve just updated the member interests page with… wait for it… a tag cloud! Yay!

OK, it’s not a tag cloud in the true sense as it’s made up of member interests (as indicated in your member profile) rather than tags, but I’m hoping this gives a more interesting view on things than the old long member interests index.

If you’re not listing your interests on your profile then go and do it now! (Click on ‘Edit your blog profile’.) Member interests are probably the busiest part of the site, and as such they are probably the best way to drive relevant traffic to your blog.

As always, if you have any suggestions on ways we can improve this site then do let me know. Oh, and don’t forget the BritBlog design competition, and if you’ve not got your blog ranking tracker code installed yet then go and get that too (you need to be signed in)!

[tags]britblog,tag cloud[/tags]

Blog ranks update

It’s been a long time coming, but the Technoranki blog ranking system is nearly back up and running again.

Everything has been moved onto a new server, but there will be a few odd things happening over the next week or so as the DNS is updated and the ranking system catches up with itself.

It will take a while for technoranki to get up to speed (it needs at least a week’s worth of traffic data), so please bear with us while this happens.

All BritBlog members who were listed in the directory as of yesterday have now been entered into the technoranki system. New members will be added automatically in due course.

Once technoranki is running properly again then BritBlog can start getting blog ranks back out of it, and the Top of the Blogs chart can start being updated again.

So I think we’re looking at about two weeks for everything to be up and running properly.

Finally, because technoranki isn’t really anything to do with BritBlog (it’s a totally separate project) I’m also going to start a technoranki category over in my own blog. I’ll publish any information about technoranki over there from now on.
[tags]technoranki,blogging,blog ranks[/tags]

Chester Blogmeet Reminder

Just a reminder to anyone planning on going to Andy’s North by North Wales (NXNWales) Blogmeet that it is this weekend! Specifically, it’s at 2.00 PM this Sunday (Sunday 13th August 2006) at The Old Harkers Arms in Chester. Full details. Note the new blog URL. It’s not looking like I can make it I’m afraid (living in the South East doesn’t help), but I hope those of you that go all have a good time. Remember to take some photos, tag them with ‘blogmeet‘ and stick them in the BritBlog flickr group pool

[tags]blogmeet,chester,north wales,britblog[/tags]