I noticed a couple interesting conversations in the world of Scouting podcasts that took place this week. First, was this blog post over at Boy Scout Trail: Yesterday, I was asked by a nice fellow in Irving to let you know about ScoutCast – a series of podcasts for Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, and Commissioners. Second, […]

I’ve noticed that there are a lot of Scouters on Twitter. You can already follow @halfeaglebot on Twitter and get updates whenever new posts show up on the HalfEagle home page. But I wanted to do even more. 🙂 The first step to that would be to let folks integrate their Twitter account with HalfEagle.com, […]

When I first made the sidebar area to promote Mr. Townley’s newest book, I wasn’t sure if I would really like it. In the end though, I was very pleased with how it worked out. I also said I’d be doing something like it in the future. Well, it’s the future. 😉 I’m happy to […]

It’s been quite a couple weeks for HalfEagle. Between Twitter’s DoS attack crippling @halfeaglebot (and parts of the site itself) and the temporary outage of PostRank’s service over the weekend, I’ve really felt like I was running around putting out fires almost constantly. This afternoon, I got another email confirming my impression that image handling […]

I got an email last night from one of the bloggers whose content is included on HalfEagle. It seems there maybe a problem with how HalfEagle checks your site for updated content. The problem? HalfEagle may be accessing your site far more often than necessary. First, I’m very sorry if this has affected your server. […]

You probably noticed a change to the home page of HalfEagle. Namely, that block in the right sidebar with a picture of the cover of “Spirit of Adventure” and some links to book reviews by HalfEagle’s Scouting bloggers. A gentleman working with the publisher of the book had contacted myself and a number of prominent Scouting […]

Recently, Jerry at The Scoutmaster Minute had to change his domain name. It turned out to be quite difficult to fix the links to his blog on HalfEagle. I had only been storing the Feedburner URLs and not the actual URLs. So I was worried I’d have to go through one-by-one, follow the redirect, replace […]

The official BSA social networking site has surpassed 8,000 members! As previously reported, the Scouting Community site has forums, groups, and every member has their own profile and blog. While cruising the site today, I randomly found a couple folks from my own district as well as some of the bloggers that HalfEagle is proud […]

Since HalfEagle started tracking links almost ten days ago, over 300 links have been visited! Interestingly, the tracking script has had over 3,000 hits, but those are mostly search engine spiders, robots, and scrapers. After filtering out those about 10% are actual people and about 10% of those came from twitter! (Not bad considering there […]

I’ve always enjoyed the site twistori because it is such an interesting experience to watch the random connected together. Since I’ve been on somewhat of a Twitter roll this holiday weekend, I decided to see if I could make a similar experience for Scouting related tweets. I think it’s pretty neat so here it is: […]