Phil does wonderfully amazing things over at a klog apart... things I wish I could pass off here as my own ideas. First off, he's displaying above each post the categories to which it belongs. I was thinking of doing this using Radio's shortcuts, but Phil has another way of doing it. He kindly shared it with me, although I haven't had time to play with it.

Now, however, I notice that he's gone and added Daypop searches filtered by keyword at the top of each category, including synonyms for the category subject. He's also got the pre-configured Google translation links in the right-hand column. Damn he's good!

All things I want to implement, all things I don't have time to implement right now. All good evolutionary steps for usability in blogs.

Wow - I'm having an automated conversation with Mark and I didn't even know it! Google seems to, though. Here's what Mark has to say:

"Jenny Levine set up a Google box for sites related to hers. I don't know how Google's "related" ranking works, but I'm #7 on hers, and she's #1 on mine. And I know that people are coming to my site through her Google box, because she's showing up in my new "Being read by" auto-blogroll list on my home page. And according to her referrers, people are also going to her site from my auto-blogroll. In other words, two people who have never intentionally linked to each other are each generating traffic for the other. (I am aware that explicitly linking to her now will skew these results.) [to which Jenny says that maybe now the results will be equally skewed and will offset each other!]

I became friends with Joe Gregorio after accidentally discovering that he lived in Apex, and with Sam Ruby after he accidentally discovered that I did. Jenny and I may end up becoming friends simply because Google thought we should.

Oh, and pretty soon we won't have to post anything at all, we'll all just auto-generate our weblogs and spend the rest of the weekend outside. (Disclaimer: I am already outside. I have wireless.)"

So howdy to my new friend Mark!

Hmmm... Google as friend finder? Some day, maybe it will even have a pagerank for matchmacking! I wonder if they've thought as a business model yet. Really makes you wonder what you could do with their API....

Bret Fausett was the first to help me solve the parameters of a Googlebox question, and you can see his answer for yourself on the Radio Discussion Group. Dave Seidel also provided the answer via a comment, so my eternal thanks to both gentleman!

So you can now see two different boxes on the right for those sites that Google thinks are related to mine. The results are quite interesting. Now if I could just figure out how to modify the macro itself so that I can change the title of the Googlebox, but that will have to wait for another day.