Thoughts.

• Updated the popular posts widget–I’ll probably re-up the list every couple weeks to month or so. Still trying to figure out an automatic solution there (one method involves ranking by comment count, but not everything that’s well-read is commented on), so if anybody out there has experience with blogger-powered popular post widgets I’d appreciate hearing from you.

• Updated the label cloud widget; moved it up in the sidebar, set the max text size to be bigger, made it so that fewer labels are displayed. Hopefully this highlights some of the labels that didn’t make the navbar a little better
• The Recent Posts Widget now displays 10 recent posts instead of 5. I had to swap off the blogger widget to do this though…I’m hoping there isn’t a noticeable slowdown for using an off-site one (there are a few already).
• RSS Readers should notice a working comment count feature at the bottom of posts now. Hopefully this helps people keep track of discussions a little more easily. It’ll stay current even if you’ve already read the post (so you can check the count again and again in your reader), though I’m not quite sure what the update frequency is–something around once every 30 minutes from what I can tell.
• I added a few other feedflares too–I’ve noticed a small but significant number of referrals from email apps and facebook, so hopefully those feedflares help expedite that process.

As always, I’m open to feedback.

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