Hi everyone. I apologize for the frustration and confusion caused by the 'preview' function of commenting directing you to a page saying that your comment had been held for moderation. In actuality, I had simply copied the wrong code into the comment preview template, which caused it to act like a comment pending template. So. This should all be fixed now and you can go back to previewing your comments rather than just throwing them up immediately by hitting 'post.'

I am very interested in hearing your feedback about the blog's usefulness in the course. I showed Prof. Crosby a few new tricks the other day, including how to subscribe to the newsfeeds. Here's a brief page on a few RSS readers and how to use the feeds. It's a great way to push information out from blogs and other sites into your computer rather than having to go out yourself and pull the information, visiting site after site after site checking for new content. If any of you need help, ask your fellow students who are maybe a bit "hipper" to the RSS feed jive, but if you really get stumped and really want to know how to use them, feel free to shoot me an email!

I am also working on figuring out how to force the system to display people's full names. At this moment, from consultation with some other techy people at the Humphrey, it seems that the problem might be related to folks who have "suppressed" their publicly-available info from showing up in University directory searches. If your posts are showing your x500 and not your name and you don't have your information "suppressed" in your umn.edu account settings, please let me know. You will be helping me solve this mystery!

UPDATE 6:09 PM (~20 minutes later): Ok, I'm stupid! I actually figured this out a few months ago and promptly forgot it. See the screenshot below for where to click (circled in red, your x500 ID) when logged into UThink.