Presence

Just noticed that the Baltimore Jewish Times has launched a blogs section, Buerger Bites, authored by Andrew Buerger, publisher of the BJT; On My Mind, by Phil Jacobs, executive editor.

Both blogs have RSS feeds (scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page), so you can subscribe to them in your favorite RSS aggregator, and have comments enabled, so you can communicate directly with the authors. I did notice that the blogging software used does not create permanent link pages on the home page for each individual blog post; creating and exposing a linked, individual page for each blog post is a good idea, as it allows for other to directly link to your posts, and increases a posts visibility in search engines like Google (which brings in traffic, increases readership and advertising revenue). As an example, I want to link to Phil Jacobs' recent blog post entitled Too Much Fear, where he gives his personal thoughts about the state of abuse in the frum community, but I have to look in the RSS feed to find the link). It's also nice when comments appear with the article, as it creates a sense of conversation around the post. It's possible that these options are available with the current blogging software they are using, it may just need to be configured correctly.