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Blog search & top bar (beta)

If you're paying attention (and looking at your blog as your readers do, in the preview mode), you will notice that the little black top bar has expanded just a bit and sprouted a new look. We have added a beta version of the long-absent search feature.

The search field in the top bar searches just the blog in question. But the search results page allows you to search all of mo'time. In the beta test phase you can also access the search feature at this URL:
http://www.motime.com/mysearch

There is no instruction manual for the search yet... you're on your own for a few days! Please leave your bug reports, questions and comments in the comment section of this post. It is a beta release and, by definition, it needs debugging by getting some real-world testing.

You'll notice a few other functions up there that serve to encourage people to sign up on mo'time, a Contact link and a space that we will use to place some ads in the future.

posted by: howard at 00:58 | link | comments (37) |
beta, updates

Global Voices Online

I heard a fascinating radio show (in English) online this evening, on the April 4th edition of The World. (I'll post the links in a list at the end of this post.) Mo'time is an international community, yet we are largely divided by language.

The piece featured an initiative by a group called Global Voices who are working to bridge the language divide. Here is how they describe themselves:

Global Voices is an international effort to diversify the conversation taking place online by involving speakers from around the world, and developing tools, institutions and relationships to help make these voices heard.

Listen to the story by finding the title:
Global bloggers report (5:45) on The World.
- edited radio story
- mp3 file of full interviews

Visit Global Voice
[About] & [Manifesto]

posted by: howard at 00:14 | link | comments (3) |
blogosphere, international