So I started writing this post yesterday, I was just about done when I got distracted by a co-worker walking into my office. So I forgot about it for a little while. Right after I was done talking with him, I started shutting everything down so I could get the heck outta dodge. And yep, I totally lost the post! Ugh... So here we go again.

Changes:

• Added "Digg Style"  voting to Blogs and Shared Items.
• Added the Buzz Town Elections page where candidates can add themselves up for election. This was mostly a proof of concept move, however if you or anyone add themselves up there your information and votes will not be lost if any changes are made to how the elections will be done and what not.
• Added some new views for the Blogs and Shared Items pages. Now there are list views and "Most Buzzed" views (we may need to change that for legal reasons??....)

To Do:

• Need to finish up the Jott Integration. Jott is a speach to text website/service where you can call their number and have it post to pretty much anything. In our case it will allow members to post Buzz Bits view Jott! It's pretty cool how it works. You can even use it to post to Twitter, your blog, and a bunch of other websites.
• Make things prettier.
• Build up a list of things that I will need you all's help with.

Doodles is happy!

We've had 19 new Buzztownie's join BTC in the last 14 hours!

I fixed a few little bugs that are too minor to even list, but I couldn't have figured it out w/o all the new members simply joining!

One of the things we need to tackle is the getting started section in the handbook. I'm sure lots of new members are signing up and saying, "um... yeah, I signed up, what now?." ( the quick answer is to fill out your profile )

I'm about to fall asleep with this hot Mac cooking my legs!

G'Night ALL!

Well I went ahead and got Planet BOL up, it's basically an aggregation of just about everything I could find as far as BOL goes.

I know I need to go and add a few things off of CNET but it's just about everything there.

So if you fel really adventurous you could get the RSS of the Planet BOL Stream and have everything BOL in one stream: http://buzztowncenter.org/aggregator/rss

I didn't get too much done, however I added an "Agenda" to the event calendar. Unfortunately the module I'm using for the calendar is in between releases, but I'm confident I should have something up there in about a week.

I got the Shared Items section ready for more feeds to be pulled in. I also made a List view so that the items can be browsed more quickly.

I should have time to really get things going on this site this week. There are still lots of usability issues that I must first address before adding new features. I really don't want to get ahead of myself, however It's bound to happen!

I created a Google Shared Items Page: Shared Items 

This is basically just an aggregation of Google Shared Items. 

You can add your shared items by clicking on Edit Profile

The Edit Profile section is a little dumb b/c there is no way to skip the "importing blog feed" section. So for now I'm going to place the "General Feeds" section in front to hopefully combat this problem for now.

 I added the Buzztownie Map.

User's can set their location to show where they live. It's just a point on a map so it won't show the "exact" location of where they live.  I'm not trying to get anyone murdered by a psycho killer or anything. B/c that would be bad.

The Twitter content for the site has changed. This might be a semi-temporary fix. I'm not sure of the exact final way/how to properly integrate Twitter, but for now I guess this will do. If you want to be followed on this website then you need to be added as a friend to buzzbot, to get added as a friend to buzzbot just leave a comment on the twitter page.

Much more to come...