Swiki stuff

Hey you. If you're reading this via my RSS feed, check the latest revelation of my inner geek on my site. I'm trying out one of TypePad's new widgets, a swiki cloud. It's very now, baby. Are these things really useful? I'd be interested to get your take. On the upside, it has given me a search bar on the blog for the first time. And it has this really cool feature where you can compare the results of the swiki search versus Yahoo!, Google, MSN etc.

I've also shuffled a few categories around on the site - a prelude to a site redesign that I've been pondering for some time. Any recommendations on a web designer in Australia?

Comments

[Caitlin]

Maybe I'm being dim but I rushed over here from Bloglines and I'm not sure what I'm meant to be looking at. Where's the cloud?

[Rob Irwin]

Are they useful? Can't say I've ever found one useful, on any site, ever. Caitlin, it's to the right.

[Kevin]

hmm, buy me a beer and I'll chat with you about your web /blog site. Do you want it WAP, 3G and social networking on the fly? Crap we can have it TOAST YOUR BREAD...

[Andy]

I created a swiki for one of my websites and I don't actually display the cloud or search bar on my site. The purpose it serves for me is indexing and picking up search results, and it works very well. Simply delivers well targetted traffic and after coming via a swicki the visitors often return. It seems to deliver better targetted traffic than other search methods, so it's very useful.

Can't argue with Kevin, I don't think any other recommendations will top that one!

[Mark Jones]

Hey Kevin - you're on! I've always wanted a multi-function blog. :)