One year

As mentioned in a previous post, Extrasonic was launched one year ago today. Since we've had so much fun with it thus far, we've stuck with the format but made several changes to the content, not the least of which is adding The Cat's Meow and Coldforged.org to our list of favorite weblogs, while some that we simply didn't find interesting anymore were removed.

Read on if you want a summary of the other changes.

Categories
The category known as "computing" has been broadened to "tech" to be more of a catch-all for computing, the Internet, consumer electronics, and other neat technology. Due to potential conflicts with work, I can't really post as much as I'd like to here. Still, it's a big part of our lives so we'll try to post what we can.

The categories "dining", "shopping", and "travel" have been consolidated down into a single "lifestyle" category. We still eat, drink, shop, and travel a lot - but we found that we typically don't blog about it.

Finally, two of our largest categories were split up - "books" was split into "books" and "comics" (complete with an icon straight out of Detective Comics #27), and "film / tv" was split into (you guessed it) "film" and "tv".

Links
The navigation on our main page (which, among other things, includes four links per category on the left navbar) has been updated to reflect the changes. The "favorite weblogs" has been updated (as mentioned above) and Bruce Sterling has been added to our list of celebrity weblogs. I've made a decision not to remove the link to Gibson's weblog, since I have a feeling it's a place he'll come back to between books. Now if only Orson Scott Card would start weblogging...

Other new link highlights include Comic Book Resources, Slush Factory, Rotten Tomatoes, and Television Without Pity.

Misc.
We're still considering ideas for some new functionality/features - the first (and only definite) to-do on our list is getting an anti-spam plugin installed. We're certainly open to suggestions, so all comments are welcome. Well, except the spam comments.

Posted by Dan on November 10, 2003 at 07:39 AM | TrackBack