My blogroll is my village

Chatting to Hugh Macleod this afternoon about being Scottish, what regionality meant, how located or not we felt geographically and the desire that people seem to have to group in groups of up to a hundred, Hugh said we were re-creating village life on the web.

But, as I pointed out, many of us ran away from the claustrophobia of village life to escape the inward looking, judgemental attitudes that can so easily come to dominate.

Then it dawned on me.

Online my blogroll is my village and the big difference is that if I don't like the society that is emerging I can evict people and replace them with new ones!

Comments

[Bernie Goldbach]

Or you can let blogrolling.com provide a dynamic churn of your community and those who rot fall off the bottom of the list based on their inactivity.

I wonder if you have a blogroll that shows a FOAF hierarchy and places bloggers you've met at the top of the listing, followed by bloggers you read and then by bloggers who matter in an occasional way. Although there's probably a mixture of all of those in your current blogroll.

[Euan]

To be honest Bernie inactivity isn't necessarily a reason to drop blogs off. Sometimes it can be months between posts on some blogs but what they write is still of interest.

I have often looked at blogrolls that reflect whether people have met or not etc and wondered about doing it but to be honest you then get into the challenges of SNS's and how you define friend etc.

I'd rather leave it all a bit vague.

[Seb]

Yes, exactly. Build your own, tailor-fit community.