Navigation in SDN Blogs

[Jelena_Perfiljeva]

Maybe it's just me, but I don't quite get how are we supposed to navigate the SDN blog entries... For example, I found this blog post through search:

It says "part 1" - great, now I would like to read other parts. But I don't see any navigation buttons that would point me to the previous/next entry in the same blog... This is a standard feature on any other respectable blog site. Sure, I can click on the author's name and then look through all of this posts, but why does it have to be that complicated?

Also (again, could be just me) when I click on 'Subscribe", it wants to download some file on my PC (I have MS IE 7) and my security software goes crazy. What's up with that? Why is it working differently than RSS feed on the forum posts?

[pokrakam]

Regarding the blogs: no it's not just you. The 'Part 1' is not really a technical thing. It's just something written into the blog. The easiest is to search for more blogs by the same author or similar title.

Sometimes bloggers add links to earlier blogs when they write a followup, however it would be nice if they would edit earlier ones to point to the newer one as well. You can always add a comment asking them to do this.

Cheers,

Mike

[marilyn_pratt]

Because the blogs here are a bit different than on other websites where you have totally separate blog for each blogger, you can think of the SDN and BPX blogs as being just one humongous blog with separate author pages. We don't have anything but a manual way to resolve this (putting forward and backward links in entries if you are writing a series for example). Others are working this out by using wikiprofiles and linking to their own contents on wiki pages. At present, in the absence of an automated "next", the best thing to do is to look at an aggregation by an author and subscribe to an author's entries. I've tried to explain how to do that with the RSS links below.

Marilyn

[Jelena_Perfiljeva]

Marilyn,

Thanks for information! This definitely explains a lot. I'll try the righ-click trick, hopefully it will work.

Jelena