Observant readers might have noticed a few changes at Hot Topic over the weekend. Two new navigation options have popped up over the header: Book Reviews and Debate Map. The first one’s fairly straightforward, it’s a link to the book reviews category — a short cut to all the book reviews we’ve published at Hot Topic since Bryan started diligently working his way through new and notable climate-related books. Thanks to his efforts we now host the most comprehensive review coverage of climate books on the web (that’s my claim, and I’m sticking to it).
The Debate Map link goes to a new page created to provide a permanent home for the Debategraph interactive map of the climate debate I first posted about back in March. It’s a wiki-style site given a nice graphical structure. I find the whole thing fascinating, so I urge all Hot Topic‘s readers (even sceptics) to go and have a play and don’t be afraid to contribute items and arguments. Debategraph head honcho David Price provides the accompanying text, and is very happy to discuss any aspects of the map with interested readers.
One other tweak regular readers may like: I’ve updated the site’s theme to allow for “threaded comments”. This means you can now reply to individual comments by clicking on the “reply” link at the bottom of each comment. Your response will then appear immediately underneath, slightly indented. You should be able to reply to replies up to five indents deep, but I haven’t tested that…
I think the Book Review section needs to have the actual titles of the books easily visible there, don’t you?
With one or two exceptions, the book titles are the post titles. That’s certainly Bryan’s style. In any case the book title is pretty much always mentioned in the first sentence or two… I’d like to include the covers, but haven’t worked out a way to do that in the short “teaser” format…
Well then, i’ll settle for as few of them as possible being obscure song titles.
Obscure? They’re all in my iTunes library!
*insert eye roll smiley here*
I dunno, young people today got no cultural depth… 🙂