Randomizer?

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Permalink Reply by jessica on October 4, 2007 at 10:20am

Yes, please! Will it be on here?

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Permalink Reply by Eden M. Kennedy on October 4, 2007 at 12:11pm

Yes, I've already talked to Lane about it. The problem we're having is that there's no ONE place where all the URL's of participating bloggers are together on one page so they can be entered into a database. This was the huge pain of last year's NaBlo and it will take some time to solve this year. But we're working on it!

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Permalink Reply by Erin on October 4, 2007 at 12:59pm

I would definitely love to see the randomizer again.

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Permalink Reply by QuirkyJessi on October 5, 2007 at 9:22am

Half of the sites I continue to visit today are ones that I pulled from last year's randomizer. I'm sure it's a pain to get set up, but it's definitely worth it to all those who use it. Thanks for the extra effort!

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Permalink Reply by Fly on October 5, 2007 at 11:33pm

If everyone entered his or her address into a shared google spread sheet, would that make it easier? it would be a self sufficient database of participants.

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Permalink Reply by QuirkyJessi on October 10, 2007 at 11:16pm

Hey, quick side question. I've been exploring through the randomizer from last year and it's shocking how many people from last year's event have completely stopped writing. Will this year's randomizer completely override last year's set of blogs (as in, will last year's randomizer still work and there will be a different one this year at a different address)?

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Permalink Reply by Eden M. Kennedy on October 12, 2007 at 11:47am

Hmm, good question. If Lane hosts it again, the new one will override the old one, but if I host it then it won't! So I'll probably host it.

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Permalink Reply by Eden M. Kennedy on October 12, 2007 at 11:48am

Shared Google spreadsheet? What are these words you speak? I will have to check that out, because if people could enter their own URLs that would be AWESOME.

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Permalink Reply by Eden M. Kennedy on October 12, 2007 at 12:19pm

I looked into the Google spreadsheets, but I need to invite all the NaBlo members to become collaborators on the document and Ning doesn't give me a list of everyone's e-mail addresses.

It seemed like the perfect idea, but I'm facing the fact that I'm going to have to do the whole thing by hand again. And I'm okay with that, I still have a few weeks.

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Permalink Reply by Jenn on October 15, 2007 at 10:44am

This is my first year too, that sounds like such fun! I am so looking forward to reading and seeing so many new blogs!

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Permalink Reply by jessica on October 15, 2007 at 11:05am

Could we start a thread with all the URL's in it - so you'd have them in one place? It might make it easier for you to put them into a spreadsheet or whatever (yes I'm so technical)

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Permalink Reply by streaksonthechina on October 15, 2007 at 1:49pm

Eden, have you asked the Ning guys/girls for help? I'm sure this whole site is run on databases. It seems like it'd be easy for them to run you a list of all the links people have put into the "website" entry on each of our pages.

Of course, I know very little about these things so insert warning here about out-of-ass-talking on my part.

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