=== Style and Substance ===

You'll notice today that the front-page "article tiles" are tagged.  For example, the "Nothing to See Here" article has a "Postgame" tag.  Mouseclicking for Dummies, Dept:

• If you click the tile, you bring up the article.
• If you click the tag itself, you bring up the "Postgame Blog."  

Give 'er a li'l dance, pard. Clicking the Postgame Blog tag brings up each related article, in a "blog" unto its own.  Later, the style will be enhanced.  A tag-click will bring up a spiffy page unto itself, maybe color-themed and whatnot, but for now the index will do us just fine … 

At this Klat page there is an advance look at the kind of functionality that's in the hopper.

Here, let's try with on the "Zen" tag on the "Memorial Day" article.  A list of esoteric subjects, such as "Nicklaus:  Never Hit a Quit Shot," and Gordon's "Boston Tragedy" article, and so forth.  Great.  If I were in the mood for something unrelated to current Mariner woes, here's some baseball/sports/cultural stuff.  Of course, the conversations can flow off this in distinctive ways.

You might (or, more likely, might not) be interested in egg-hunting the tags, to see which ones lurk ... there's a "Hottest Groks," "Players of the Day," "Sabermetrics" and so forth.  

All this would be far more interesting if major league baseball were played in our city, but you're a hardball addict, so you got no choice.  Read baseball; that's your fate.  Trudge on through the Mariners shtick, sad as it may sound.

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=== Much More Importantly ===

The real reason that Klat is launching this concept of "Pyramid Blogs" is to --- > get some real writers into this dive.  

At SeattleSportsInsider, there is now a Gordon Gross blog, and a Spectator blog (Mariners Prospect Talk).  Boom, SSI expands by Spectator's entire audience, and by all past, present and future G-Moneyball fans.  Now we know how the Yankees can afford three $25M benchies.  Just annex the local TV rights and you're golden.

Jim ... er, Spectator ... is a real pleasure to work with, and he/Gordon have been talking about doing a baseball book with the three of us.  Sounds like millions to me.  While we pass the time waiting for the movie rights to sell, his MarinerStalk work has built up a real following.  

You may ::shrug:: and just keep clicking the front tiles, as you did before, because G-Money / Spectator / Dr. D are so similar in voice and approach that you could afford to ignore the differences if you liked.  (Dr. D has no problem whatsoever with dealing compliments to himself, as you may have noticed a time or two.)

On the other hand, if you like to noodle around within certain themes, this Blue Eyes White Dragon / Nested Blogs Dominate City idea could be the future of the internet.  One stop shopping and seamless one-click jumpoffs to whatever grabs you that day.  You might check the "Guest Posts" tag, er, blog for an array of recent kibitzes by super-posters.

Right now, I'm feeling pretty Tacoma Rainiers.  Think I'll click on Spectator's tag and wallow in his shtick for a awhile.