Tuesday December 20, 2005

A Word About My Blogroll

I’ve been doing some upgrades around here. There’s the new bio page, and I just sorted my blogroll into categories. There’s been some talk lately about doing away with blogrolls. With that in the air, I felt obliged to make mine useful—useful to readers, useful to people who link here, useful to those who are on it, and useful to me.

My blogroll consists of everything I’m subscribed to via Bloglines, so I actually read everything that’s on it. If I stop reading something, I unsubscribe and it disappears from the blogroll. When someone links to me, I almost always subscribe to their feed for a while and see if I like it. If I do, it stays.

For the new year, I’m going to formalize that process. If you link here—or participate in the comments on this site—I’ll add you to a section of my blogroll called “Recent Referrers” (presuming you’re not already on my blogroll), which is toward the top of the right sidebar. I hope that positioning sends you some traffic to reward your exquisitely good taste. And, obviously, I’ll actually be reading your blog. The limit over there, however, will be five links, so when a new referrer comes in, I’ll either have to promote a link or get rid of one, which will be done as needed.

That’s it. Hopefully this will mean links for me, exposure for referrers, and a list of links that I can honestly recommend reading regularly, because I read them regularly. So if you want me to check out your blog, link here and I will. Simple.