Blogrolls piss me off. Not in themselves, just keeping them updated. There are automagical ways of managing the list of links on your sidebar but none of them have ever appealed to me and so mine just stagnated. Until now. For the first time in about two years I’ve updated it. I thought about being all clever and sectioning it all up but in the end went for the really un-useful long-list system which makes me look well read / popular / desperate (delete as applicable) but doesn’t really guide you to anything new.
And so it will sit there (main page, right column, down a bit), probably missing some people and gradually getting more and more out of date. Cherish its freshness while it lasts.
[Update: Added a few podcasts down there too. It's the future, y'know?]
I have like 150 blogs that I read, they are very poorly sorted out on Bloglines.
The “web design” is probably where most of the goodies are, I really should spend some time and sort it all out.
Ohh I’m the same – christ knows how many are in my bloglines and I’ve got a few hundred across three different blogrolls. Currently limiting the display on my site to a random 30, not sure if anyone has noticed…
P.S. ONE “c” thanks… McLean as in “MickLane” not “MickClean”. ;-)
You actually read 150? Wow. I’ve blogrolled 30, and that’s really too many, but that does include some from people who seldom post, which helps :)
Pete: thank you, I feel right proud to be on the list.
Well not every item is a blog, some are flickr stuff and some stuff is like news. But yea 150, I guess I do spend far too much time in Bloglines …
Hmm … fresh and tasty.
Gordon – fixed, though you’re no doubt not the only one…
For the record I have 211 feeds in Bloglines, though a lot of those are dead / news / admin feeds, and I can’t be bothered to sort them out for public consumption. 150 sounds about right.
In summary: I don’t use any automated blogrolling things. Pain in the arse, frankly. I update by hand – originally to keep the number of blogs I read down to a manageable number (for there was a time when I was all keen and stuff, nnd tried to read over 100 blogs). Now, it’s rather changed to the fact that because I very rarely add a new blog to my reading list, it’s just easier to keep the entirely manual, old-fashioned version.
Oh, and I also hide my blog away on a sub-page, which means that anyone who is lucky (or unlucky) enough to see a click coming through from my site should probably realise that the clicker is just me.
…wow – can I use you as a reference now :^)…
But I’m digressing, and meandering, and I apologise, unless you like that kind of thing, which I do when others do it, but I understand if you don’t.Actually, if you do like this sort of thing I heartily recommend Billyworld. He’s a master, and I mean that in the best possible way.
…not that I’ve held that quote, waiting for the moment when I could…ah, fuck it – thank you :^)…