I've been quietly working behind the scenes over the past few weeks to improve the immediacy of the post-related information presented across TTLB such as the top posts and hot topic pages. I'm pleased with the results: you will now notice that throughout the site, information is being updated continuously during the day, providing a much more "fresh" view of what's happening in the blogosphere at any given moment.

In addition, I'm experimenting with providing "alerts" posted directly to the front page of TTLB: when a blog post is detected during the day that has achieved a certain level of popularity (i.e., links), it will be included in a "hot post" entry on the front page here.

Suggestions and feedback on this new functionality are appreciated. As always, I'm striving to make TTLB a key resource in your blog-surfing day, and I welcome input on how best to achieve that goal...