In general, blogs don't get a chance to offer up reader mail/e-mail due to the fact thost most people will provide feedback in the comments. However, I did receive an e-mail from a dedicated reader last month which led to a site improvement. Here are comments from the reader:
"... on your hawkdigest blog, can anyone post a new topic or can I only insert a comment on an existing story? Just curious, I was
going to post a link on a new subject that didn't really relate to your existing topics, but I'm apparently to computer illiterate to figure out how."
At the time the answer was "no." However, the result was the addition of a sidebar feed of the Jayhawk Network Forum (JNF). This allows anyone to post a story or comment that will appear as a link on the main page. The plan to do this has been on the table for a while as I missed the tagboard function on the old host site.
You can get into the forum by clicking any of the current Jayhawk Network Forum links or by clicking on the link under the Hawk Digest section. Essentially, the JNF acts as a standard message board and I'd love to see some of the many visitors that stop buy post updates on KU and college football news as they occur. Opinions on KU football topics outside of the current blog content are welcome as well. Kansas football news sometimes comes in waves and it can be difficult to catch up. The vision for Hawk Digest and the accompanying Jayhawk Network page is to be a collector of all that data and give KU football fans a single resource for news and jumping off place for Kansas football.
History and Structure
Hawk Digest started last September. Shortly after that I set up a webpage that would better aggregate news feeds in order to simplify the job of "researching" KU football to provide content for Hawk Digest. It had links as well and I thought it was actually useful for all KU football fans. I added a rotating photo, bought a URL and the Jayhawk Network page was born. Shortly thereafter, I added the Jayhawk Network Forum so visitors could comment if needed. Now, the feed for the forum has been linked into Hawk Digest making a nice little circle of KU football content.