Changes to Dumb Little Man

We have recently made a couple of changes to the functionality of Dumb Little Man and I thought I'd point them out to everyone.

1. Commenting - As many have probably noticed we moved away from Haloscan. This decision was really based on 1 thing. We simply didn't feel the need to collect email addresses from every person that left a comment. We don't like giving away our personal email address so we couldn't continue mandating that you left yours. We all want this to be an open forum where anyone can add to the conversation whenever they want to (except blatant spam). We want your feedback so we are going to make it easy to leave it.

Our new feedback system was written by Singpolyma. Mark did a lot of tweaking to the display to get the look we wanted, but the brains are with Singpolyma.

2. Bookmarking - If you are a frequent blog reader, you will notice that several blogs have tons of icons that allow you to bookmark their post to del.icio.us, or where ever. In the very beginning, we tried that but felt it was too obtrusive. Therefore, for a while we went without any social bookmarking icons. Recently I tested a fell in love with something named the Socializer. On all of our post pages, you will now see "Social Bookmark this page"(see image below). By clicking that link, you be shown a ton of bookmark sites and you can basically choose where you want to save our post based on the service you use.

I welcome feedback on these changes so if you have any positives or negatives, please let us know.

Thanks,

- Jay