In response to requests I've made some improvements on how the blog works. You can click the title "Against Monopoly" to get back the front page and the titles of posts now have the permalink (also available as always at the bottom of the post).

For authors - there is a new feature that enables you to receive email notification when you receive comments on your posts. Just make sure that your that for each post you set the public email address to your real email address and put an asterisk after your email address. So, for example, in the email field I put

david@dklevine.com

nothing will happen, while if I put

david@dklevine.com*

then for that post I will receive email notification of any comment that is submitted to that post.

Jolly good David.

Whilst you at it, bear in mind that the de facto standard for blog comments is for the e-mail to remain private (used only for authentication, notifications).

Most blogs also allow the commenter to leave a URL to their own blog or home page.

The email is private: the default is nobody@nowhere.com. I assume Mr. Nowhere gets a lot of mail. There isn't a separate spot for leaving a url, but you are welcome to put a link in the text of your post.

Well, sure, if I don't enter my e-mail it remains private, but that's no good if I want notifications. Ideally, there's a way I can tell you my e-mail address without it getting published with my comment.

Check out the e-mail link to this comment.

At the moment the email notification only works for posters not commentators, let's see how that goes.

Thank you very much!

David,

I am an author of the comments that I post, so you might see how your article above could cause confusion.

If you were intending to address only the dozen or so site authors you list in the left hand column, then an e-mail circular would probably have been a more appropriate means of communication.

Because you have published a post to this site's entire audience, it may be inferred you are addressing all authors of anything posted to this site, whether comments or articles.

Yes, sorry for the confusion. The other changes work for everyone. If those who post comments are interested and if the system works well for the site authors I will consider extending it for everyone, so if that is of interest, you can leave a short comment.

Didn't this blog post illustrate the idea that the transmission of ideas is often faulty and difficult to do?