Be heard on the issues that matter most to you!
Many thanks to Viviane of the Sex Carnival for explaining to me how she acquired for her sidebar the ever-updated list of news items on so many sex-related topics! I've adapted it for use here, and you can see a page devoted to "Sex in the News" if you click on the "New Feature: Sex in the News" item that has magically appeared in your navigation menu on the left. (That's the menu with your name attached or, if you're not logged in, that simply says "Navigation".)
It looks like this:
You can see the list of news topics there near the top under the heading "In the news". (They look like tags.) When you click on one, Google pulls together the most recent stories found using that search term and displays them for you on the page.
Below that we'll put rss feeds to news sources. Right now we've got a feed for the NYT sex news stories. Feel free to suggest other sources but note that in order for us to use it the source must have a feed specifically for its sex stories. The New York Times does this by creating rss feeds for lots of different topics.)
This is a new feature, and so we'd love to have your comments and feedback. Let us know what you think in the comments area below.
...because public space really matters!
Elizabeth
A few notes, one exciting and one not so much:
1. On the exciting side: See the little blue "b" icon at the end of each NYT headline? That stands for 'blog this' and if you have a blog on this site and you click that icon a new blog post will automatically open up with the Times article linked and cited and everything. Pretty cool.
2. On the less exciting side: Of course it seems an increasing number of Times articles are being reserved for Times Select users. These are marked with a [TS] at the start of the headline. TO read these not only do you have to be registered but you have to be a paid subscriber. Rotten. I'm told, though, that if you have a ".edu" email address that you can get Times Select articles without paying. Any other strategies?
Note: If you don't have blog access here but would like it, just drop us a note and we'll sort out the details. Blogs are reserved for "regular contributors" for now, and we'd want to just discuss what kind of regular contribution you'd be interested in making.
...because public space really matters!
Elizabeth
