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Jan 24th, 2007 at 8:05 am by PSoTD

Just a quick question: how many blogs on Susie’s blogroll to the left have you visited before today?

And then a not-so-quick question: Are blogrolls vestigial for blogging?

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on 24 Jan 2007 at 9:32 am1Bunter

Probably half. I use the Suburban Guerrilla blogroll as my bookmark. I’ve found so many great blogs and instead of bookmarking them, I just click alphabetically down the list.
on 24 Jan 2007 at 10:20 am2k

Not that many, although more than I would have thought before I looked. I don’t have much time, and I tend to go to a few to get a good overview of what’s going on, but my list of a few changes.
I think blogrolls are still an integral and essential part of the scene. That and comments. It’s like a huge and boisterous classroom, or maybe some academic conference with different discussions going on everywhere and I’m just sucking this stuff up like a sponge.
on 24 Jan 2007 at 10:36 am3radish

A bit over a third, looks like. Funny you should ask though. I just now discovered that Digby’s Suburban Guerilla link leads to suburbanguerilla.com, when I clicked on that for a change, instead of looking at the SG RSS feed (which seems to be working again

Whether they’re “vestigial” exactly is a tough question. I can’t be the only person who checks out the blogroll when I’m first exposed to a new blog, or find new blogs that way. Plus blogrolls count for search engine ranking purposes…
on 24 Jan 2007 at 10:39 am4Chris

Radish, what was wrong with the RSS feed?
on 24 Jan 2007 at 11:29 am5Ghost of Joe Liebling's Dog

I read the blogroll, usually, at any blog on my first-time visit, and if I’ve got time on my hands I visit a bunch of ‘em.

Besides, Susie blogrolled me, back when I was blogging — that’s gotta be a mark of distinction.

Don’t lose the blogroll.

With kind regards,
Dog, etc.
searching for home
on 24 Jan 2007 at 2:16 pm6agave

~30

Are you aware that the Guardian has linked to your Blog in an article?

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on 24 Jan 2007 at 3:29 pm7Peter VE

About 45. I use the SG blogroll when I feel like spreading around my reading: it helps to have an interesting name.
on 24 Jan 2007 at 3:30 pm8Michael Bloom

I like blogrolls. All the blogs I try to keep up with are on this blogroll or Duncan’s. (And I’m worried about Duncan’s announcement that he’s going to take his down and rebuild it.)

In fact I’m here right now in part to follow Suburban Guerrilla’s blogroll link to the Rude Pundit, who generally posts in midafternoon.
on 24 Jan 2007 at 3:57 pm9Izquierdo

About 25.
But none of them via the blogroll — almost all
through links within the posts here.

However, this thread makes me think I should
sample a few now.
Entartete kunst, here I come.
on 24 Jan 2007 at 8:22 pm10BroD

I live by Blogrolls! The smaller (but no inconsequential) part of my dismay when Billmon went dark was my dependence on his blogroll–I’m still trying to get my bearings.

One of the frustrations are all the dead links and I was going to suggest to all my favorites that they make a New Years resolution to clean up (but since I’m just a free-loading fan, decided to bite my tongue)
on 24 Jan 2007 at 8:23 pm11Susie

If you find a dead link, or someone who hasn’t posted in a few months, let me know. I don’t have time to go through them all.
on 25 Jan 2007 at 1:24 am12radish

Er, once I’d verified that the site itself was still working I didn’t look. Sorry. Usually it means either the site is down altogether or that an XML error has snuck into one of the articles.