DISQUS

David Nick · 3 years ago

Hence the question I posed on my site the other day. I have a list of "Links" on my blog that I use. I don't want that list to ever grow to HH's or MM's lists because no one ever looks at that list and honestly scrolls it to say "Hmmmm well if it's listed here, it HAS TO BE WORTH READING".

That said, the list I have is short by comparison and I don't feel it's needlessly tossing out links to other sites.

Your article makes a VERY valid point however that link overkill is too much of a good thing.

Carol · 3 years ago

I have a blogroll, but they're sites I actually read -- most of them daily. I cull through once a month and delete sites that are gone, or haven't been updated in a while. I try to keep it to a manageable list, and I'm pretty selective as to who gets on the list and who doesn't. The last time I updated the list, I think I removed around 10 or 12 blogs -- simply because the sites weren't working or I grew tired of them and didn't want to read them anymore.

My blogroll is like my magazine rack in the house. I cull through that once a month, too, and the "keepers" are indexed in magazine holders on the bookshelf.

Yes I am a bit anal about my reading material. :-)

David Nick · 3 years ago

I agree Carol, and I don't think it's wrong to do it that way. I just can't stand heading to a blogsite, or even Drudge just to scroll through a list of links to different sites that they probably don't even read.

There is such a thing as too much. I think that a mile long list of links is one of them.