A Blogroll That Works
Sean McGrath: I’ve cleaned out the blogroll on my blog home page pretty dramatically. I’m now just using it for pointing to various ways of contacting me rather than linking to blogs that I read/recommend. The main reason is that the blogroll isn’t a true reflection of the blogs I read these days. That would be by bloglines OPML file, not my blogroll.
Why not simply point to your BlogLines subscriptions? That’s how I do it on my weblog. It is even functional - people can click on feeds and then click on subscribe if they like what they see. And if they scroll down, there is even a link for exporting the subscriptions.
“Small Pieces, Loosely Joined”
Why not? Because I’m a statistical outlier and have a gawdawful number of feeds in my subscription list.
Though, I have tried to share my reading lists through my new .plan page.
Posted by l.m. orchard atSam, I’m puzzled. The Bloglines trick you’re using is OK, but... Why not do something like this (taken from my own blog, and nothing more than cut-and-paste from Bloglines)
<div id="blogroll">
<h3>BlogRoll</h3>
<script language="javascript"
type="text/javascript"
src="http://rpc.bloglines.com/blogroll?id=MasterMark&target=_blank"></script>
</div>
Posted by Mark Masterson atJoe,
Your how-to page contains some dead links. I’d love to see that PHP code.
Posted by Scott Johnson at
Why not? Because it adds extra steps?
If someone tech-savvy wants to read your blogroll, they need to click on BlogRoll and orient themselves with the bloglines interface.
If someone tech-n00b wants to read your blogroll, they’ll click on BlogRoll and then freak out.
It’s easier if you just export your subscriptions periodically and use one of the simple OPML-to-HTML converters.
That way, your blogroll is:
Here’s an example of how I execute that: [link]
Posted by Joe Grossberg at