The re-purpose-driven Webdog

After a long respite, Wedogs 2.0 is back, with a modest shift in purpose and focus.

Webdogs 2.0 has been rebuilt with a several-steps upgrade to WordPress 2.6 (highly recommended); a switch away from the serviceable but anemic native WordPress search function to a vastly more facile and flexible Google Site Search (née Google Custom Search) integration; a slightly revamped tagging system using the Reciprocity Configurable Tag Cloud plugin exploiting the new WordPress tagging functionality; and more significant changes to the overall Webdogs 2.0 site structure.

On the site structure thing: Webdogs 2.0 has morphed into more of a public repository for postings and documentation of the various web-based projects supported by Legal Services of Northern California (LSNC). Hence, the cluster of “project” links in the right-side menu. Some are collections of postings here. Others are links to external LSNC projects that are Webdogs driven, such as the recently published California Food Stamp Guide (soon to change its name to the “SNAP Guide,” as in “Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,” the new name for the old Food Stamp Program); the Race Equity Project, which is ground zero for LSNC’s GIS and data-based advocacy; and most recently The Findability Project, funded by the LSC TIG program.

Hopefully, this will be a case of less is more. Postings will be less frequent than they had been “back in the day.” But I suspect they may be more substantial, more useful as these and other LSNC projects unfold. Rest assured, the Webdogs’ sense of humor remains intact, so continue to expect flourishes of bad puns and well deserved irony.

You know how it is. A Webdog’s gotta do what a Webdog’s gotta do.