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Love to hear your reaction.... - Jeremiah Owyang

Much cleaner, wider..makes font size look larger. A LOT easier on the eyes. I like it a lot! - Angela

Digging the way comments look like talk bubbles. - Hutch Carpenter

May not be a big deal...should you add Twitter to your "Connect" section? I know your latest tweet is showing right below. - Hutch Carpenter

I also like the display of your flickr feed - Angela

Also - any way to get "Tweet this" on the Share This Post options at the bottom of the post? - Hutch Carpenter

What is your Web App your using? Wordpress? - Santa CW™

Just CW - WordPress is correct! - Mitch Canter

Hutch - Done. Thanks for the suggestion! - Mitch Canter

Hutch, Actually, I prefer the Twitter bug back on the connect bar. Some folks may not see it in the inventory and not realize that's one of my main ways to communicate. - Jeremiah Owyang

Very nice Jeremiah! - Allen Harkleroad

Does anyone else have feedback? - Jeremiah Owyang

I'd move the Twitter Counter and RSS Reader number to a higher section on the page. - Nicholas James

Very nice! It works well in Firefox 3.08 here, although I also have Opera and Konqueror available to test it in. - Tyson Key

Also Jeremiah try: http://browsershots.org/ ;) - Nicholas James

Jeremiah, I fear that you may break the conversation by encouraging people to comment your blog post on messages like this one, instead of the original entries in FF from your blog feed. For instance, all the comments above don't appear on your blog. Thus, if you intend to tweet and friendfeed your blog post, comments will be lost in the microblogsphere and won't aggregate in your blog. - Jérôme Flipo

Thanks Jerome. Technically comments here wouldn't appear, only on the actual blog post items that flow into the FF river. - Jeremiah Owyang

I stumbled upon this today: http://www.ubervu.com/ Haven't got an invite yet but it seems like it can connect the microblogging comments to the blog. might be helpful. It's supported by disqus but I haven't seen it in action yet. - cathycracks

love the integration of social media in the new design. in the "connect with jeremiah" section, The FF icon is square instead of round like the other ones. this stands out for me. Also, might be nice to cluster the subscribe RSS call-to-action with subscribe with email. either move RSS to sidebar or move the email up. more consistent information flow. - cathycracks

Thanks Cathy. Mitch should be able to fix the rounded corner icon dealio - Jeremiah Owyang

Nice and clean new site. Great job. A couple of small suggestions. I actually missed the Connect with Jeremiah bar because its in the site header. Partly from banner burnout on other sites. Would move down to right column. Would agree with Nicholas about moving the counters and reader numbers higher up although you are so well known I'm not sure if its absolute people have to see the... more... - 8chocolate

Overall, it looks...well, "safe". I think the title is very light/thin in the font department, so it gets a little bit lost. - Steve Woodruff

I like the theme, it's strong without being overpowering. Blue is still a wise choice since you are primarily in the enterprise space. The new logo works beautifully. I think you have a winner in the overall banner. The body content, though, still needs some refinement. The two text links (vie a video and to 'designer challegenge' give the impression that we've jumped into the middle of the site. Especially since you have the latest Twitter entry in the bar above. Too many place to go without context. - Kit Seeborg

Do very many readers use the chronological list of archives? I would move the categories up and get rid of chrono, unless you see that people use them a lot. change "hit to enter search" to "search this site" or similar. And in the right column there should be a list or badges for your upcoming speaking gigs. I'd put the RSS feed and the Subscribe links together so people can choose either/or. That goes for RSS to jobs as well. The way your "connect" links is perfect. Do the same with "subscribe" options. - Kit Seeborg

Very helpful, thanks Chocolate. Steve. Kit, I know you're from design, and a friend of mine, I take your advice seriously, thanks! - Jeremiah Owyang

I'm on the fence about the length of the home page, especially since your articles are medium to long, and you get a lot of comments. Would be good if you could get readers into the site, with a 'read similar posts' or something. I'm interested to see how it looks with an image or video imbedded in this home page post. Overall, looking really really good! - Kit Seeborg

Oh, and I looked at it Camino and Safari, both look good. Although Camino doesn't list the Archives and Categories unless I click on the arrows. Maybe that's intentional - can't tell. If it is, you should do the same for Job listings. I would group Archives, Categories and Jobs together - move the subscribe box. - Kit Seeborg

The layout is great because of the way the different services are integrated. - LPH™ and his dog P™

Kit - there's a jQuery selector on the categories and archives. You have to click on them to show it - Jeremiah has a lot of stuff and we wanted to showcase it but keep it out of the way when people are more worried about current content. You can click on those arrows to expand the lists. - Mitch Canter

Jeremiah - that was my experience. I missed the Twitter icon on your Connect bar, was surprised about that. Then I realized your account was available via the latest tweet. Agree that Twitter should be on your Connect section. - Hutch Carpenter