FEBRUARY 10, 2009 7:28PM

help promote features like The Daily Scrawl

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NOTE: the name of this post has been changed from The OS Link List: Oh-So-Versatile

You have the power to help promote good OS reader-driven features.

You haven't forgotten about personalizing your own OS link list, have you? A groundswell of OS users who use the link list to disseminate good OS user information would make fabulous features like The Daily Scrawl easier to find and access.

 For example, here's my link list (also available on the left-hand side of the post). I've tried to separate each list by category, making the information easier to understand. However, I cannot control the order of the lists, nor the order of the links. That's in the control of OS software magnates.

You can do this.

My Links

Making OS easier
How to Write for the Web (and OS)
Ric's OS Avatar Tutorial
Ric's Banner Tutorial
Ric's How-to OS VooDoo
Ric's Link Tricks
Tracking Your OS comments
What's "To Blogwhore?"
Make OS posts more pretty with CSS (easy)
Building an OS link list
Making the OS cover: A Primer
Building an OS readership
Make your images larger
Making a link in comments
Basic OS posting tips

Personal links

Classic OS (curated by me)
The Daily Scrawl: Most Recent on Top
I Wouldn't Even Wish For Snow
Inventory of a Bad Woman

Some of my OS posts
Wally Lamb's Columbine failure
Best Fiction of 2008
Visual poetry
I'm a hater

Life outside OS
my goodreads book list

Other OS Annexes
Blog Annex: How To
rob st. amant
the squirrel
Greg Thomas
mishima666

My Blog Annex the underside

 

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Thanks so much for this!
marytkelly
February 10, 2009 07:49 PM
I love the links! Now I don't have to scroll through my friends to find people I want to read and my own archived posts are being found and read again. Thanks for suggesting this way back when.
Lisa Kern
February 10, 2009 08:02 PM
Thanks for the links and the time it took to do this.
Dr.Spudman 44
February 10, 2009 08:09 PM
Just as I was finishing up a better categorization of the links on my blog, I see yours. I used mine more personally, it gives folks a chance to see what I was writing before anyone noticed. *smile* The idea of blogging a set of links and then linking that from the front page - GREAT BIG GIANT FABULOUS IDEA!
Dr. Susanne Freeborn
February 10, 2009 08:41 PM
Mary, Lisa, Idaho, you're welcome. If you could amend your lists to include The Daily Scrawl (if you want, that is) it would help create a link meme. Susanne, I like your link list. I also like beans. Go figure. I changed the title of this post to better reflect my intent.
undertow
February 10, 2009 09:22 PM
Thanks for the "shout-out" and more importantly, (a reminder of) the idea of the links. Plus, I refer to your guide all the time, and it has helped me with all kinds of editing, formatting and other problems.
Critical Mess
February 10, 2009 10:52 PM
Love the way this is organized. Even I can understand it. Thank you for this invaluable service!!
dcvdickens
February 10, 2009 11:24 PM
Thanks. Very helpful.
grif -
February 11, 2009 12:20 AM
Thanks. Very helpful.
grif -
February 11, 2009 12:20 AM
Wow, this is excellent! I was thinking it would be good to have a link on the front page to various 'how to' tutorials, but you've already thought about that and created these type of links.

One question: a while back (maybe a month ago) someone posted a 'how to embed video'. It was excellent, thorough, and had great screen captures to illustrate it. I can't remember who it was and I cannot find it. I already asked Rob St Amant, and he didn't know who did that. Anyone here remember this and know who it was?

The 'techie' people here should be informed of this post, and asked to let you know whenever they blog a technical post. Would you then be updating this list?

Anyhow, muchas gracias.
Cynarra Ru'aviv
February 11, 2009 01:29 AM
This is very helpful. Thank you.

Rated!
Padraig Colman
February 11, 2009 02:29 AM
Really well done.
Many thanks!
Caruso Wegie
February 11, 2009 02:40 AM
Haven't done this, so thanks for the info.!
Stephanie Kuohujoki
February 11, 2009 09:57 AM
Thank you, undertow. The most useful post on the site, to my mind. They should just link to this post from the FAQ for tech help.
Smithbarney
February 11, 2009 10:28 AM
This is perfect. I just added this one link under my Useful Links list and got all the rest included here by you. I hope you don't delete this post. :)
Thanks. rated for usefulness.
JK Brady
February 11, 2009 12:58 PM
undertow...
why have you become a popart blowup doll?

???
(thumbified because it is entirely possible that the whole world turned into graphically designed sex toys while I was off looking at puppies and not paying attention.)
Jodi Kasten
February 11, 2009 02:27 PM
It's always fun to stumble across a new blog and even better to find links to me! Note me and give me an idea of what you might like for a banner.
RicTresa
February 11, 2009 04:19 PM
Sorry for yesterday's absence; I just had a lot to do and wasn't home.

Jodi, my avatar is my homage to the perpetually-surprised. I'm co-opting the sexual imagery of the graphic mannequin and...no, really, I just love that image. Not sure why, but I do.

Cynarra, I tried to find the embed a video post and couldn't. I think, however, that you simply go to youtube or wherever and copy the "embed video" html and paste it into your posting window. Anyone?
undertow
February 12, 2009 07:37 AM