My attitude toward my blogroll is a little different than most bloggers. I link to only a handful of sites and I read each of them daily. I'd like to think that since I have so few on the roll that I can lead significant traffic to each site; a longer blogroll would dilute the effect.
So here's the loose guidelines I consider when deciding whether to add a new site.
- A public affairs focus. Blogging about kids and pets is nice, but I want something more.
- A link to this blog. All but a couple of the sites listed on the left link back here. One of the ones that doesn't has long been promising a link. I'm very patient, Stephen.
- The new blog is worth de-linking an old one.
Usually when I add a new blog I take an old one out of the blogroll. Today I'm adding Drug War Rant. Whoever can guess which blog is gone will win a gold star.
As more blogs link to this one I may have to give in and expand the blogroll. I think some new blogs have linked here lately, and I'll have to do something about that.
Are you saying you are going to delink me? Or are you using some reverse psychology logic to get me to start talking about pets and my imaginary children?
Yup.
Really, I don't think I'd ever de-link anyone who reads and posts here regularly. I'm grateful for the readers I have, especially bloggers.
Hehehe, I link to you, but I tend to talk about my kids a lot (since right now one of them is in the middle of a major controversy).
I only recently started becoming active in others blogs with comments and things.
Give me time, I will one day make your Blogroll :)
Thanks, Walter. I'm honored!
If I had kids, I couldn't post as often, and the cats just get hair on the keyboard.
So I guess I'll just have to keep posting about the drug war.
The facts are really shocking, the stakes are typically huge, it really is difficult to talk about and even more complicated to do something about it. Technologies, therapy, communication... all of them compete with human nature. In addition to every situation is unique.