Please Excuse the Dust
Just testing out a poll feature I added. Hanging out on a snowy day has encouraged me to add some neat features to the site. I hope you enjoy them, and for now, excuse the dust.
I add ratings to every post. Right now it only shows up when you click on individual posts, but I might put it all on the front page. I’m hoping for more feedback this way, even if it’s not extensive commenting.
I also added a print and email button on each post. …

I like the little triangular banners you can put in the top corners of your website and blog. I’ve decided I would start a post collecting those. Since I couldn’t find a lot I’ll start with a couple and encourage people to make more for the websites (particularly humanitarian and non-profits) that you like.
Let’s be advocates through our blogs.
You can read about how to put this banner on your site here.
If you want this banner for your website (and get it to show up for just Internet Explorer …

Thanks everyone for taking a minute and filling out the survey. If you haven’t I would really appreciate it if you could.
There will obviously be a few glitches along the way but I wanted to try something different, a little more friendly and readable. Let me know your thoughts. I’ll try and continue to make it as useful as possible, but I didn’t want all the clutter. Let me know if anything about it is distracting also.
One new thing I wanted to point out is that for a limited time …

Hey everyone, if you didn’t catch it yesterday, I’m redesigning my blog a little bit. I could use a little input from you on what’s worth having here and what I should ditch. Give me a minute of your time and fill this out.

Fill out my Wufoo form!

So, sometimes I have an idea and I can write it down and forget about it. Other times it keeps me up and so antsy I get kicked out of bed (actually encouraged lovingly to pursue my ideas; I love my wife). But sometimes I don’t know when to stop.
I had this idea to make a digg like site for articles and sites about fair trade and conscience consumerism. It seems like it would be a great way to keep things up-to-date and find relavent articles that suit people’s interest. …

For those who don’t know I currently have all entries on this website reposted onto a xanga.com account. There are a couple of reasons for this, the main one being that I have a LOT of friends that use Xanga and this makes it much easier for them to read my writings. Second, this does spread the word and hopefully promote what I write a little bit.
Why the “Bigger is Better” title? Cause I saw flock.com’s start page a while back and they had a big font on …