Comments on: On a roll

By: Michael Bates

Michael Bates — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:13:27 +0000

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.

By: sya

sya — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 02:56:08 +0000

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…

By: McGehee

McGehee — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:18:12 +0000

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?

By: fillyjonk

fillyjonk — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:25:22 +0000

“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.