Comments on: Blogrolls, RIP

By: An Explanation regarding the Blogrolls

An Explanation regarding the Blogrolls — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:29:14 +0000

[...] EDIT TO ADD: Blogrolls, RIP [...]

By: KipEsquire

KipEsquire — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:46:24 +0000

False dichotomy. The RSS aggregator and the blogroll can be one and the same. Bloglines and Blogrolling have both offered this option (i.e., embedding on a website) for years. I use Bloglines for my blogroll and as an emergency backup aggregator.

Google Reader does not yet offer (to the best of my knowledge) the option of embedding it onto one's blog, but I'm sure it will come eventually.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:31:38 +0000

I still do my blog surfing the old fashioned way, through favorites, rather than rss feeds. One day I'll break down and get an rss reader I like.

Just get Firefox with the LiveClick plugin.

By: Soccer Dad

Soccer Dad — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:00:08 +0000

Independents seem to vanish in the haze...

Last October I made it to a very flattering list. Soccer Dad was listed as one of the 100 most influential blogs for 2006 in a study by Carnegie Mellon University. (I was ranked 22.) I'm not going to pretend that I understand the algorithm that produ...

By: Below The Beltway » Blog Archive » The End Of The Blogroll

Below The Beltway » Blog Archive » The End Of The Blogroll — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:58:57 +0000

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By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:38:30 +0000

The reason I first bookmarked your site is because of your blogroll, and how it updated itself for people that recently posted.

I still do my blog surfing the old fashioned way, through favorites, rather than rss feeds. One day I'll break down and get an rss reader I like.

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:47:40 +0000

I gave up on the concept of a blogroll a long time ago. To me, adding value to someone else's blog doesn't come in the form of a blogroll but in the form of a link in the context of my content. The amount of benefit froma link in a blogroll is about similar to Colbert's one black friend, so to speak. It's token.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:24:08 +0000

If you're talking about the little gray box with the white people symbol in it

Well yes, I wouldn't have made it sound so racist.(/sarcasm)

and James you should have given Bit a job a long time ago.

Doing what?

By: G.A.Phillips

G.A.Phillips — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:15:33 +0000

More then one blog you say, Ive checked out the typing donkey's on other blogs, to much unfiltered braying, at lest the stable you have here is some what bridled, and James you should have given Bit a job a long time ago.

Pictures of my favorite poopers would be cool.

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:12:42 +0000

Hey, how can we put images in our posts now

If you're talking about the little gray box with the white people symbol in it, just sign up for a Gravatar and associate it with your comment email. If you're talking images generally, you can use [img src="imageurl">. Preferably, it'd be an image on your own server or mine, though, since you'd otherwise be leeching someone's bandwidth.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:50:22 +0000

Hey, how can we put images in our posts now?

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:49:37 +0000

Not exactly. Different styles of traffic boosting, I guess is the simplest way to put it. They're of interest to me since I do run my own site in addtion to (by James' leave) being quite active here.

It's an interesting post, but the fact that he posted it soon after another post on a similar/related topic, that's not interesting.

By: Bithead

Bithead — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:40:26 +0000

He's posting about something related to something he's recently posted about. How is that interesting?

Not exactly. Different styles of traffic boosting, I guess is the simplest way to put it. They're of interest to me since I do run my own site in addtion to (by James' leave) being quite active here.

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:22:39 +0000

Remember that usage for blogrolls?

All too well, I'm afraid.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:39:14 +0000

Interesting, that this post comes so closely on the heels of your comments on other traffic boosters....

He's posting about something related to something he's recently posted about. How is that interesting?