I'm with Jeneane on this one

The blogroll said: this is who i like to read, who do you like to read? Oh Cool! I see you--Do you see me? Oh Cool! I will check out who you like to read. Why don't you check out who I like to read? Oh cool! I will add that person from yours and you from mine and his from hers and theirs from theirs. Along with our posts, blogolls were streetsigns to regular coversation spots.

Then new people started writing online.

Then we added them to our blogrolls.

THEN WE ADDED THEM TO OUR BLOGROLLS.

I'm glad I still do that.

We need to keep doing that.

Otherwise it's just another silly pyramid scheme.

an ode to blogrolls

Comments

[Earl Mardle]

I have a proposal I've put up to Taka my mate at Awasu and I'm hoping he'll get to it shortly.

I want a tool in Awasu that keeps track of whose blogs I ACTUALLY read in any, say, week. Then, as Awasu already does, it produces a blogroll for me based on the feeds I've opened.

The it sends the file, automatically, up to the blogroll on my blog to keep a dynamic track of whose stuff I'm reading, rather than allow it to ossify and face a biannual clearing of the stables.

Machines are supposed to do the slave labour, we should make sure they do it and get on with the valuable things.

[Euan]

Cracking idea!