I have recently taken over shipwright duties (with greglas' help), re-skinned TN, and added some social media bling. You should expect to see some more changes in the next day or two. Perhaps more widgets (like a library, links to papers, conference calendar, etc. etc. etc.)
As TN lives on Typepad, this is really only a superficial change of template and layout. If you have any comments/suggestions/feedback, please post below!
Flipping the switch to the new design now!
(image is a Wordle of our RSS feed)
You may want to consider a move off of TypePad, by the way. It doesn't look like the future is promising. At least, be sure to back up your content on a regular basis! Here's a good read:
http://mashable.com/2010/09/21/say-media/
That said, the new changes look good.
Posted by: FlipperPA | Oct 01, 2010 at 13:36
Your "Where in Meat Space are we?" link seems broken.
Posted by: Erik Hanson | Oct 01, 2010 at 13:39
Thanks! Will fix.
I really like how the search works, you can even subscribe to an RSS feed of a particular search string.
I'm also trying to surface the categories more, and allow for pivoting on author names to see their posts. Other things to surface the archives, too, like the 'top posts'. And I want to add our 'collaborative units', list of virtual worlds, and 'research rolodex'.
I do note that commenting could be more accessible than clicking through to the post itself; trying to find that setting to tweak.
(oh, I did do an export, just in case!)
Posted by: Lisa Galarneau | Oct 01, 2010 at 13:43
Yow! This is wonderful.
Posted by: ecastronova | Oct 01, 2010 at 15:33
Very cool, Lisa!
Flipper, I doubt they'll be turning out the lights at TypePad. We've contemplated platform migration before, but I think this is the first major facelift in, what, 6 years??? :-0
Posted by: greglas | Oct 01, 2010 at 17:17
Ooh!The RRS feed is working again! Yay!
Posted by: F. Randall Farmer | Oct 01, 2010 at 18:18
Nice work, gang! Love it.
Posted by: Kevin Michael Johnson | Oct 02, 2010 at 08:06
The redesign looks amazing, Lisa!
Posted by: Nick Yee | Oct 07, 2010 at 15:42
this is teh awsome
Posted by: Ren Reynolds | Oct 08, 2010 at 18:05