There’s a shiny new extra in your Dashboard for you to use. It’s called “Sideblog.”

What this extra will do is allow you to post “asides” on your blog. If you don’t already know, an aside is a small post that you deem too insignificant to take up space on your front page as a main post, but that you’d still like to share with the world. An example can be seen on An Army of 1 in 10.

To get started with this, you’ll need to activate the extra as you’d normally do, then go to your Options page and click the new Sideblog link you’ll find there. Once on that page, you need to pick which category (or categories) you want to use for your asides. My recommendation is to create a new one (Manage -> Categories) called “Asides.”

You can configure how the asides will be displayed on the Sideblog options page by editing the text in the “Display Format” column. A legend is at the bottom of the page to help you configure it. An Army of 1 in 10’s asides are using the following format: <li>%title_url%</li>

After you’ve got it configured to your liking, go to Presentation -> Sidebar Widgets and drag the new widget (called “Sideblog 1″) to where you’d like it to appear and click the Save Changes button. All you need to do after this, is to make sure you select the category you chose for your Asides when you’re posting something as an aside.