Fast Fiction

This week’s LA Insight is a little different. Perhaps it’s better in an email, but I haven’t posted so it goes here. Of course I’ve taken the night to think about it.

Most Los Angeles Insight questions have to do with the activities within, or thoughts on, the city we live in. Today, I’m going to ask some questions about this site itself and I hope that you would take some time to give me some feedback. A few of us are getting together this weekend to brainstorm some new LA Blogs ideas, so some additional user input would be helpful.

As usual, copy these questions to your own blog, post the answers there and leave a comment in this thread so that we can find them. Don’t feel obligated to answer all of the questions and also be brutally honest if you have criticisms, I can take it. Thanks for participating!

1. Are there any features that you think could be added to LA Blogs?

I’d like to see profiles about each blog. I know, huge project. I seem to recall when I first signed up for LA Blogs that I had some sort of profile. It’d be neat to be able to look at what those blogs on the blogroll are about. But then again, I guess a blog is a profile too.

2. For the Digest posts, should there be more, less, the same amount of entries?
I’d say more. I like the diversity. I’d like some of the posts to be a little more recent (I noticed quite a few were from a few weeks ago).

3. Layout. Like, love it, hate it?

I don’t much care one way or the other. I like fast loading pages.

4. If you could have a FAQ question answered, what would your question be?
How do you find your excerpts for feature? Do you really read everyone’s blogs? Do you read them via RSS or do you actually visit them all?

5. Blogroll. Useful, too long, too short?
Love the blogroll. I usually visit the ones that look updated, but every once in a while I’ll go down and look at the blogs at the very bottom. They’re actually updated, but I guess they’re not pinging.

6. How could we get more readers to this site, which in turn would drive more readers to your sites?

I don’t know how many readers you have and how many more you’d like to have.

I liked the get together last year. That was a good ocassion.

7. Would an “ask LA Blogs” section be helpful? Similar to ask metafilter, but LA based.

I don’t know how many folks have questions - couldn’t it just be dealt with by folks leaving a comment or emailing you every once in a while?

8. General feedback. Do you have any?

I visit several times a day, mostly to check the blogroll for the blogs that I don’t have on my RSS aggregator.