But, I’m pretty sure you knew that already, as you’re one of, like, three people who actually read it. Anyway, so. . .yeah. Definitely keep this up.

As to the redesign, I know photography is a big hobby of yours so while I don’t use the Flikr feed, I understand why it is there. (I usually just click the links you toss up on Twitter. *shrugs*) It is lovely eye candy, if nothing else.

The blogroll gives me new stuff to read when I’m all out of interesting things to do. The Twitter feed could stand to be a might bit shorter, but the Cloud of Tags is something I have yet to utilize on this (or any) blog.

That’s my two bits. Hope it helps.

I occasionally get hits from here, but like Rick I don’t know if they from comments or the blogroll.

I’ve had some folks use my tag cloud on occasion, but not enough for me to keep it much longer.

I love Painting with Shotguns.

I keep up with your color blasts via Twitter, so everything but the post you’ve linked is kind of extraneous, to me. Meaning my input statistically counts for nil. Facts is facts and I don’t moan about’em. MEANING: do what you want. Do what the monkeys tell you. Do what you want the monkeys to tell you. It makes no whit of difference to me, so long as the content keeps rolling.

But looking it over, I think tag clouds are fun for about fifteen seconds, and only to the blog owner, but after the user get the first glance, it becomes forgotten and the eye just passes over it. Blog rolls are important social grease, I think, and spread good will. And traffic.

You’re verbose (Zork: maximum verbosity) and so your posts are long. You could probably stand to have just a double columned layout, rather than the three column divs you have now.

I’d be happy to help you with your masthead, if you’d like, but you seem quite the designer and Photoshop adept yourself. But let me know if you do.

The Lynx is adorable. You should post more lynxes!

I’ll see your Hindmarch and raise you a Lt. Dourdalev, my friend who is a lieutenant in the Marine Corp!

Good to know!

– c.

In short, yes, I get traffic from you… usually every day or two.

Curly brackets. Noted!

The Tumblelog is cool, but it nets me no feedback, and I kind of use it as a Zen thing. Further, I don’t like it as a text drop. I keep the text there spare, minimal. It’s mostly a visual record of Shit I Saw During My Day. It’s context-free, which I don’t like for a blog, but I like there? I dunno. But, I will definitely keep up the cross-promotion to remind toward Tumblr. The new theme I’m looking at will, I think, have nice bridges out to my social media.

Oh — and yes, if I get rid of the standard blogroll, I would then most likely make it its own page. Though, I worry that’s a page no one will ever click. I do like the blogrolls that actually serve the full purpose and offer up a name of header of the most recent post on the blogs. Is that a plugin?

– c.