Some Changes to Make Things Easier for You

I made a couple of changes to the blog last night that I wanted to let you know about:

1. At the left, I have replaced "Online Reads" with three different lists to make it easier to find the resources you are looking for: Event Reads, Green Reads and Tech/Media Reads.

2. I added a search function powered by Lijit. Make sure you try it and let me know what you think!

Comments

[Tara Anderson]

Alli, thanks for giving Lijit a try. If you (or any of your readers) have feedback about our search widget, please send it my way. I'm tara [at] lijit [dot] com.

I, too, love the Summize tool and use it to track mentions of Lijit across Twitter. As a customer service tool, it's one of the best in my kit.

Hope to meet you in person sometime and if you're in the downtown Boulder area, stop in to our office and say hello! We have an open-door policy and I'm sure we could find a t-shirt for you if you dropped in...

[Barney Moran]

Hey Alli,

As a pub with a legal background, P.U.B wants to give you a heads up on making sure any widget you install both: 1)respects the privacy of your blog's statistics and 2) pays YOU revenue for any revenue your placement of the widget affords them.

P.U.B. [Publishers Union of Bloggers] has pending inquires to Widget Providers concerning how they generate their income and what percentage of this income goes to the Blog Publisher making the critical decision to allow a Widget on their site for their readers. In addition we are requesting transparency on the critical issue of how the private statistic from Publishers Blogs are being used, hopefully with the Publisher’s permission!

P.U.B. expects to heard back from Lijit on these financial and private statistics issues from P.U.B’s inquiry we sent to Lijit in mid April 2008. When we do we will let great Blog Publishers like you know their deal.

P.U.B. also works with Blog Publishers to track performance hit evaluations of Widgets too. Let us know if you have any follow up on any of these important issues for the blog community.

Will publish these results to keep the community of Blog Publishers informed on this critical component of Widgets on our Blogs.

Please provide PUB feedback on any of these issues so we can feed this input to our Publisher members.

Barney Moran, P.U.B.