TIB News
News and announcements regarding The Ice Block.
Monday, May 30, 2005
Continuing the Hiatus
It’s been a while since I’ve made a normal post here, and I’m not quite sure when I’ll be back to post regularly. However, I have been taking care of the Newslinks on weekdays and some weekends.
In the meantime you still have a fair amount of blogs to read. Joe Tasca has rejoined the hockey blogging community. Joe’s posts are always well-thoughtout and he is rarely short on words. Tom Benjamin, Eric McErlain, PJ Swenson, Jes G?lbez, James Mirtle, John Fontana, Hockeybird and Michael are all going strong. My apologies, I know I left a few off the list, I’ll be adding a complete hockey blog watch thing here soon.
Eric Mirlis has put together some articles commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the New York Islanders first Stanley Cup win. Newsday also has a few pieces about the Isles’ glory days.
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Newslinks Are Back
Newslinks have been re-added to The Ice Block. There’s a menu option for it towards the top, and the last ten will be located on the right, although I’m not sure if I’ll keep it on every page like it’s on now. Either way - they’re back for your hockey media reading convenience.
The links will take you directly to the story, the little icon next to it will open the same link, but in another window. If you’re using a browser that supports tabs, just hold ctrl when clicking to open up the link in a new tab.
Newslinks will remain active for one week. It’s common that many online newspapers pull their stories after that time and put them into a paid-only archive. On that note, I will post stories to websites that require free registration, but I will not post stories to sites that require paid registration. Newslinks are links to online mainstream media, or “old media” sources. Newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations. Blogs will have their own space here on The Ice Block soon.
Commenting is enabled on all Newslinks. Comments will typically remain open for the same seven days that the Newslink is active unless an updated link to the same story is posted (or they spiral out of control, I guess). Comments for Newslinks are just like the comments here for my normal blog entries, registration is optional and I hope to keep it that way.
There will be a feed for these soon, and I hope to also make an easier way for users to post Newslinks to help out. Until then, feel free to email me from the Contact link.
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Get Your Feed on at The Ice Block
I’ve got the feed going for The Ice Block:
http://www.theiceblock.com/feeds/main/
Subscribe away!
Some quick links to help some of you out:
My Yahoo!
My MSN
Bloglines
Newsgator
Title inspired by Tom Biro.
Saturday, February 19, 2005
The Ice Block Revamped
So here we are - a fresh new face on The Ice Block - going back to it’s blog-ish roots.
I’ve moved over all my hockey posts from vodkafish.com, and that lets me hit the ground running here.
So let me go over a few things about this site:
There’s a registration system here. It has member profiles and such, let’s you set a few preferences about the site, manage subscriptions (you can subscribe to comments for posts), will help you avoid spam moderation, and let other readers contact you, if you want. It’s the same system as vodkafish.com. Globalization!
This is not the final design, but I really wanted to get this going.
I’ll add categories as I post. So over the next month or so, there’ll be a good number of additional categories.
I plan on re-adding Newslinks to TIB. I’m in the process of re-building the system. Any regular member would have access to drop them in without moderation.
The feedreaders should be re-added soon as well, along with a blogroll or a full-out link database.
Don’t bookmark anything but the domain yet - I am working on a better naming system for the urls, so they will change.
There’s a contact link (currently towards the upper right), feel free to give me a shout.
While Fenway’s opening was overshadowed by the Titanic, The Ice Block’s revamp is no doubt overshadowed by a cancelled NHL season. Hopefully I can make this site as loved as Fenway, sans championship drought and less awkward analogies.
Welcome - again.