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You’re Not On The List
April 4th, 2006
Why put a person in your blogroll, when there’s nary a chance they’d put you in theirs?
It’s smirkworthy to stumble across a blog with a blogroll that is basically a copy of the Technorati 100. There is the A-List. Someone has painstakingly recreated the A-List. Either a list of blogs of technical luminaries, or else a list of blogs from one side of the red/blue divide.
Must be a newbie.
There’s no need to post your blogroll if that’s all there is too it.
What good is a A-Lister reading list? An A-Lister heavy reading list has got to be wicked dull. The echo must be deafening.
I’m a fan of the Indie Virus. It is an effort to promote the common blogger. The everyblogger. Is is one of many efforts.
Here’s a suggestion.
Cull your blogroll. Remove any blog that is a brand.
Keep only the blogs that have a body behind them. People who you know. People you might well consider friends.
Keep it small. Take it seriously. Let it reflect upon you.
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Comments 
Phew! - I’m still on yours! (for now, anyway)
What was the fallout for Nick from the web ballot last week?
Ric
Yes. I’ll be writing about that today.
I largely agree. I’d also say: Small is beautiful. People with long lists of sites may as well not have any sites listed since any individual link is going to be lost in the shuffle. I don’t pay much attention to my blogroll or whatever you want to call it since few people ever really follow those links anyway. But what I do have is mostly things I read regularly that I like a quick link to or else people I know.
Ric
I’ll be writing about it soon at least. I’m off to see the Nick Varrecchio in a bit, then to Nathan Shroyer’s meeting, then to Jimmy Delery’s meeting.
There will be new audio up tomorrow for the French Quarter town hall over at Think New Orleans.
I sent an email message to WDSU to see if they had a press release or something I could work from. I missed the newscast where they discarded the results.