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Announcement
I've been playing around with a new gizmo for the past few weeks and I thought it was time to share it with you.
I've always been frustrated at the lack of being able to quickly tell somebody what I think of their blog article. You have to go to a separate page, read all the other comments, and then spend many minutes trying to put your feelings into the right words.
On the blogger side, I wish I had more feedback. Many times I see that I get a lot of page views but very few comments. What can I do to learn more about what my readers like and don't like?
You can create all kinds of technical solutions, but that seems like too much of a pain for the average blogger. What if they could just add one line to their blog template and get a bunch of new functionality for them and the user without doing anything else?
So here it is -- batBack. You add one line of code to your blog and all of your users, no matter which browser or operating system, can vote on each of the articles. There is no installation. It only takes seconds for the readers to give you feedback. There's a bunch of other features and neat stuff, but I'll let you find that out for yourself.
Some of this material is covered under a patent-pending status. And I forgot the best part! it's all free.
Enjoy.
Lies! I see no way to vote or give feedback. :P
Matt:
Right now I'm looking at this page in IE, FireFox, and Opera. In all of these there is a gray bar with voting results and a gray bar with a red line that lets you vote.
Currently there is a one minute delay until it loads. I figured until you read something you didn't need the tool around anyway, and there was no point is eating CPU cycles for nothing.
Now that I'm deployng on real blogs, there will be some adjustments while things get worked in. If you see anything you'd like changed, just drop a line.
It works via JavaScript I'd assume? I'm pretty sure I have it disabled in Konqueror pretty much outright.
Yes Matt.
You gotta have JS and cookies.
I am thinking about testing this in Konqueror. Just need some time to set up a linux box. I imagine it should work fine.
I can understand if for security reasons you don't want no Javascript and cookies on your box. There is always a trade-off between functionality and security. If you get a chance to run it on an enabled box your comments are appreciated.
We've also just debuted on the local community blog, www.lynchburgvirginia.blogspot.com