Introducing the PNW Topic Hotlist

Over the past month I have been working on a project that I have called the PNW Topic Hotlist, and the results of this work are now finally coming to fruition. If you look at the sidebar to the right you will see a section that displays "hot" topics that a number of bloggers from the Pacific NW have very recently been blogging on.

The PNW Topic Hotlist is a centralized, constantly updated listing of very recent blog entries related to certain hot, in the news topics, as culled from a number of different politically slanted blogs in the Pacific NW area. The PNW Topic Hotlist can be embedded within any Web page, offering quick access to the blog entries on the hot topics. The source blogs have been generally chosen from those that have been syndicated by the Pacific NW Portal (which if you are not familiar with it is a great resource that brings together many, many great blogs, and well worth a visit). Since the Hotlist content is constantly updated, the listed topics and blog entries will always vary, and the output will grow longer or shorter accordingly.

I believe that this facility will become a great way to highlight commentary on the hot topics of the day. The PNW Topic Hotlist, by the very nature of how it is produced, will stay fresh and up to date, and will point you to other excellent blogs discussing the same issue.

The PNW Topic Hotlist has also been developed so that anyone that wishes to can embed it within their own Web page or blog. At the bottom of the Hotlist is a link that will open up a window that explains what the Hotlist is and enables you to configure Hotlist output in the format of your choosing, for use on your own Web page. You can then press a button to generate a simple Javascript tag that can be embedding with the Web page.

This is a new feature offered by this site, and as such I expect some potential growing pains, especially should traffic grow too fast, but now you know how I've been spending much of my last month. Regardless of how this works out I've managed to learn a lot along the way.