On a roll
Sometimes I look at other people’s blogrolls, but they’re pretty much impossible to interpret. Does the blogger actually read these blogs or are they just there for reciprocal linking?
My own collection being rather impenetrable and cumbersome, perhaps it’s time I made with the explanations already.
Most of the sites I list, I make an effort to read on a regular basis, though some bases are clearly more regular than others. There are, in general, three overlapping groups:
- Local-ish bloggers;
- People I actually know;
- People I read because I think I get something out of the reading.
For instance, there are upwards of 50 Oklahoma blogs on the list; I’ve met at least twenty of the bloggers behind them. (And there are more than a dozen bloggers who aren’t from around here whom I’ve met.) Obviously I can’t read everyone on the list every day and still keep a day job; I’m not the most efficient when it comes to pruning links.
And there is, yes, one reciprocal link, though I’m not going to tell you who it is.
fillyjonk »
20 February 2009 · 10:25 am
“And there is, yes, one reciprocal link, though I’m not going to tell you who it is.”
Were you in the craft blog world, you would then do a contest requesting people to GUESS, with prizes.
But I’m not suggesting YOU do that, just observing that the craft blog world is a little bit nuts with the contests and such.
I have a few links to blogs I really no longer read but the person is famous enough that if I dropped them, I’d probably get Howler e-mails demanding to know WHY. It’s easier to just leave the links.
McGehee »
20 February 2009 · 1:18 pm
To be honest, I really only regularly visit a handful of the blogs on my visible blogroll. I keep a page on my hard drive with a much longer list of links including those on the ‘roll, but I look at it maybe once a week, and click one or another of the links there slightly less often, sometimes at random or to see if someone who’s gone missing has resurfaced.
I sometimes wonder: if something happened to occupy more of my time, would I even realize I’d stopped reading blogs until some lazy Saturday when I sat down and noticed that my computer shut down for a power failure two months previously, and hasn’t been on since?
sya »
20 February 2009 · 8:56 pm
I don’t have any local bloggers on my blogroll. Or anyone I’ve actually met. I tell myself it’s because I don’t find them very interesting, but maybe it’s something else…
Michael Bates »
20 February 2009 · 10:13 pm
I still have a blogroll, but it’s been displaced to a great extent by my Newsgator blog aggregator page, which I check several times a day to see the latest posts from the couple hundred blogs I track with it.