Balls and Walnuts
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Time to retool the blogroll?
Blogrolls seem so 2009. Remember when we used to have those “You blogroll me and I’ll blogroll you” conversations? Yeah, me neither. But I’m not yet ready to follow WordPress’s lead and jettison my links altogether; it would be like throwing away an old address book. Yes, I keep my old address book. There are dead people in that address book.
That doesn’t mean I’m going to keep links to defunct blogs. I tossed out any blog that hasn’t been updated in the last six months, and I tossed out folks whom I haven’t heard from in years. What’s left is a pretty slender list.
Here, have a sea cucumber. Or slug. Who knows?
Which all begs the question: does anyone read blogs anymore?
D.
Onward! →
I read blogs anymore! And I was very sad when they killed off Google Reader.
Nice cucumber-slug-thing, by the way. It looks like a royal cucumber-slug-thing.
just seems so quiet lately — even formerly “busy” blogs, I’m seeing single-digit comment threads. I don’t see the appeal of Twitter over blogs, I really don’t.
No, I don’t get the whole twitter thing either. I still prefer longer reads. Maybe we are 4 course meal people in a fast food world 🙂
I still read yours, Doug, and a couple others from my “Former Blogger Friends” days. I think Facebook has killed blogs for the casual Internet user, but there will always be a place for people who want to write longer and have more control over the look-and-feel. Ten years from now it might just be you and Neil Gaiman, but if that’s so, I’ll still be reading you both.
Four course, Chris? At least 🙂
Thank you, Matt. If you bring IL back, let me know, I’ll get you back on the ‘roll. Me & Gaiman in the same breath . . . wow. I’m not worthy, I’m not worthy.
I don’t have to read anything anymore since I had that information transfer port installed on my head. I just plug in my iPhone or iPad and it syncs everything directly to my brain. No need to read!! And it charges my iPhone and iPad while it works!
I still read blogs. And I post to my blog(s) but not as much as I used to. LJ is mostly about work, life, travel, etc., and I use WordPress to blog about reading. Or, more accurately, The Great Book Purge of 2013, which I’m afraid may stretch into 2014.
As much as I like Twitter, I find it not as good b/c so much is lost in the 140 character limit. And I’m not a GoodReads fan, which has siphoned off a lot of former bloggers.
jmc