But why would you want to know?
Every once in a while I think I should make a proper blogroll. You know: the blogs I read frequently, the blogs I never read but list because that’s the thing to do if you want to appear connected, the blogs I’d like to read someday but haven’t yet, the blogs with the cool-sounding names that I wouldn’t read if someone paid me, the blogs that once linked to me for some obscure reason so that I feel honor-bound to link back… and so on.
That’s what a blogroll is, right? It’s a high-school popularity contest all over again. I lost that contest in high school; I doubt I’d win it now.
Besides, who really cares what blogs I read? Do you really think you’d know me better if I told you I read [Snarky Blog] every week? Sure, I’d look all powerful and connected to the [Snarky Blog’s Circle of Influence], but in reality I’d still be an outsider knocking on the door. Do you need confirmation that I’m blundering around in my own little corner here, largely unnoticed?
Ok, here: I’m blundering around in my own little corner, largely unnoticed. It’s confirmed.
I just don’t understand it. What’s the fascination with blogrolling? Why do you care which blogs/sites I read frequently?