Site Update: September

Here we are almost exactly one month from our last site update. We promised to write more, and during the month of August, we pumped out 17 quality posts. During the month of September, you will see a minimum of 30 posts, at least one every day. We will continue at that rate come hell or high water.

Along with site updates, we are implementing another monthly tradition: link collections. In the process of finding material worth writing about on this site, we come across a lot of unique sites that for one reason or another didn’t get a devoted post. In the last week of every month, you’ll get one post from each author containing their favorite links and why they like them. Check out the inaugural posts here: Pichote’s Links - August, Yoda’s Links - August.

On the comments front, we had a couple cool things happen. First of all, Yoda’s post about Crumpler bags managed to grab the attention of a Crumpler employee. Ryan (from crumplerbags.com domain) chimed in, saying

“AWESOME REVIEW!!!!!!!!!”

Thanks, Ryan. We think your bags are pretty awesome too.

We also had Tech-blogging heavy-weight Paul Stamatiou stopped by and comment on our review of the GlobalSat bluetooth GPS receiver. He said

“Great post. Unfortunately for me and my Curve the version of Google Maps for some reason leaves out GPS support and I’m working on hacking up an 8800 version of Google Maps to work on the Curve - in the meantime it works with BlackBerry Maps (eh).”

Sorry bro, best of luck with the hacking. Let’s just cross our fingers and hope for the Google Phone to come out soon.

Pricklepear is participating in the Blog Action Day event, so on October 15th, expect to hear what we have to say about the environment and the web. Hopefully we’ll be able to contribute something valid to the cause, but either way, we are really excited to be involved with such a noble cause. If you don’t know about Blog Action Day, stroll over to their beautifully designed site and check it out.

On the backend of the site, we have a little news as well. The FeedBurner RSS situation got sorted out, and we now have a fully accessible Pricklepear RSS feed available for your sampling. We’d love it if you subscribed.

We also implemented the Sociable Wordpress plugin by Push CX. This means that you can bookmark any of our posts with a multitude of services quickly and easily. A couple of our posts are now on Digg, (Pichote’s August links and our post about the fastest printer in the world. If you have an account, we’d really appreciate a digg. If not, you should totally sign up. Digg is a great resource for hot news.

Everybody knows the saying “hindsight is always 20/20″ and recently it has been applying to us. When Eli designed Pricklepear, the scope of the site was meant for a single author with a slower turn-out. Now that we are posting every day on a variety of topics, the site is beginning to reveal its weaknesses. Expect to see a redesign of the structural components as well some graphic elements in the next month. We are going to make it a little narrower for smaller screens, and bring in some AJAX to make life a little more exciting.

Well, thats about it for now. Keep checking back everyday for new material.

Love, The Pricklepears.