Blogrolls are Dead

June 7, 2006

Blogrolls are dead.

Wizbang posted tonight asking if folks would care if they got rid of their blogroll.

Not I. Here are my thoughts… which really apply across the whole web, not just to Wizbang:

I don’t know that I’ve ever clicked a blogroll link in the past year. I’m busy. I use an RSS aggregator to read feeds, only clicking through to the articles of interest (hey, I made it to this one). When I read the articles, if they link somewhere, I’ll follow it, but I don’t have the time or energy to blindly follow links from random sites. If you’ve got a better use for the space, go for it. If a site is worthy to be mentioned, you’ll mention it in your posts.

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