Blogroll the world
How many people do you have in your BlogRoll? How many of those people also show up in 20,000 other blogs from around the world?
I am sick and tired of everone using BlogRolls to list the same group of 20 people. I am sick of my own Blogroll. What is the point of seeing the same Simon Wilson, the Mark Pilgrim and the Dave Winer on every blog that everyone visits? Does a link on a blogroll (that everyone already seen, 20,000 times over) make you well read? Quit with the famous people. Start putting stuff (and removing old, crappy, extremely cliche’d ones) in there that no-one else has visited before or at least has not heard about yet. I want to add special interest blogs in my blogroll. I wish more people would do the same so a blogroll becomes an actual source of browsing direction rather than being a loooooonnnngg and booooring list of links that no-one ever looks at.
I am about to modify this design as soon as the new version of WordPress is out and I promise that I will only put the most unpopular blogs in my roll! I will make it so that – the blogroll is NOT the longest part of my blog – the blogroll is a browsing tool and not a useless bunch of junk – expresses my eclectic tastes in blog browsing – increases readership for the people on my blogroll (and they actually care)
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You want an interesting, different blog in your blogroll? Add mine. It’s all over on topics: Java, sports, music, etc. And I read all kinds of blogs so it links/ comments on a number of blogs.
Either way, I agree with you on the “carbon copy” blogrolls out there. If the blogger is an expert then obviously everyone is reading his/her blog so why list it. Why the list the new, interesting finds so others can enjoy them?
Erik
Comment by Erik 4/7/2004 @ 8:35 amYou have been officially removed from mine. Just to keep it fresh. I don’t think I have any famous people on mine… I think besides you (who is now removed
) there are only people I know in my blogroll or people that I think are fun to read.
Comment by logtar 4/7/2004 @ 8:37 amMaybe we should start a new tradition that the first of each month is clean out your damn links day. Anything you haven’t visited, or even haven’t really enjoyed in the last month gets the boot.
Comment by morydd 4/7/2004 @ 8:41 amI’m with you!
Trackback by Erik's... Hmm... 4/7/2004 @ 8:49 amI was reading this morning and he comments on blogrolls and how lame they are getting. Just about every Java blogger has the exact same people in their blogroll. That goes for Perl guys, css guys, etc. How about we…
I’m miserable at keeping my blogroll clean… Maybe I should go purge…
Comment by nikkiana 4/7/2004 @ 11:26 amWell I was introduced to the whole blog deal with LiveJournal and then to personal website blogs with all these web development once. After awhile I decided to make my own, which I actually opened about a month ago.
Since I am new to this whole deal and I really do not have many people visiting my blog I started working on a blogroll just to put up links to other bloggers that would be willing to come by and comment.
But yeah, I see what you mean, you see the same 20 links on every other blog.
Comment by Vitaliy 4/7/2004 @ 11:21 pm[...] r there. While lists of links and such can be handy, I also find them ugly. I was reading mark’s post on blogrolls and how they sort of remain stagnant and typically h [...]
Pingback by C H O P S O C K Y . net » playing with blog 4/8/2004 @ 11:17 amThe only reason I have links on my blogroll is for my own pleasure. I use them to go to friends journals and read them instead of typing in the URL or having a thousand bookmarks. I just bookmark my blog and access the other blogs I read through my blogroll.
I don’t have that much on my blog that is really important to read, but when I do have something to write about that I feel is appropriate to share with people I don’t know, I’ll blog it.
Comment by David M 4/10/2004 @ 10:06 amAnd what exactly is the point of this site?
Trackback by neverhood.net 4/20/2004 @ 10:41 amThis site has had several identity crises during its relatively short life. More accurately, I’ve had several identity crises relating to this site during its relatively short life. I have scribbled countless redesigns and overhauls on napkins in ba…
I’m with you!
Trackback by Erik's... Hmm... 5/12/2004 @ 1:24 pmI was reading Mindful Musings this morning and he comments on blogrolls and how lame they are getting. Just about every Java blogger has the exact same people in their blogroll. That goes for Perl guys, css guys, etc. How…