Integrated Chinese Blog (post)

Re searching conversations: somewhere someone from admin has hinted that they're working on the searching. For now, I've found that if you're looking for a specific thread, you'll be much better served by going through Google. Just search for ChinesePod and a string of words that relate to the thread. Throwing in a name like Henning or Bazza can also help. (There's probably a more elegant way to do this, but I don't know what it'd be.)

Suggestion for ChinesePod, which has been made before: on the new and wonderful home page (which I'm actually using again! Since the changeover a few months back, I'd stayed clear of the home page in favour of RSS feeds or bookmarks), add another little box below "Lesson Conversations" for "Other Conversations."

Also I agree with above post. There should be a way to search Conversation posts. I just tried to start a post about the HSK and it turned out the title was already taken; I had to manually search through a few pages to find the conversation that had already been started about the HSK.

Does anyone know of a way to compare one's Chinese progress to a university curriculum? Maybe samples of Integrated Chinese online? I would love to know what a second year student learns as a means of comparison.

To follow up on something AZERDocMom hit on.

Although I noticed the IC blog shortly after it came out, I sometimes feel there are too many communication channels for CPod. Conversations... Lesson comments... Extra/News... Ken's Praxis Blog posts (has Ken stopped blogging?)... IC Blog... Newbie and other Blog... Comments on all various blogs... plus the user run Chinese Pod Forum.

If I don't notice something in a feed soon after it's posted, I'll never see it. If I want to go back and find a comment, searching is difficult if not impossible. Am I missing something about web 2.0 that makes all this easier, not harder?

John

May I suggest that the link to the IC blog be featured more prominently on the homepage somewhere. It's a shame that all that work you and Dave are putting into it appears not to have been noticed much thus far.