Comments on: The utility of a blogroll

By: Richard Kendall

Richard Kendall — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:19:55 +0000

I scour my netvibes every day, but do skim my delicious network on occasion, and even that has a feed that displays in my netvibes page.

I started using netvibes a while ago before google Reader made improvements, but I’m happy with netvibes as a tool. Being able to group related bloggers, or news sources on a subject is such a time-saver.

I delicious articles or tutorials that may be of use later, although saving every interesting article does seem a little bloated and overkill, but it keeps an archive of related sources/comment on a subject or issue, e.g. http://delicious.com/richardk/onlinenewspapers.

This method does seem to have superseded the blogroll in my view.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:04:48 +0000

Ah, yes, it was a dumb question: I’ve discovered that the blogroll appears only on the front page, not on individual posts.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:03:12 +0000

Forgive me for the potentially dumb question, but where is your blogroll? I see the footer’s selected feeds, but I don’t spy a “traditional” blogroll as you’ve mentioned.

At any rate, my blog is one with a similar focus to yours and I’m always looking for feedback.

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By: Nigel Barlow

Nigel Barlow — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:40:46 +0000

I agree with you Mindy.I still have a blog roll and used to adhere to reading them on a regular basis but now I simply use bloglines and save good posts to my delicious network

By: Alfred Hermida

Alfred Hermida — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:47:57 +0000

I still have a blogroll on my blog though it has become a rather static record of my reading habits from more than a year ago. A dynamic Delicious stream of links strikes me as a better way of pointing to good material on the web. Perhaps the value in a blogroll is to new readers as a guide to who else is writing about journalism.

By: Mindy

Mindy — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:55:24 +0000

@Martin Belam - I was just discussing Delicious yesterday with two journalists at breakfast. I told them that I bookmark as much as ever, but I don't check my Delicious network as often as I used to. One of the other two said he is using Delicious less in general, but he's not sure why. The other said he's never really gotten into it, but I think we persuaded him to give Delicious another try.

By: Martin Belam

Martin Belam — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:50:38 +0000

I used to have a blogroll, and a recent referrers log in the sidebar at currybetdotnet, but I haven’t for ages. I guess I let people know what I am reading now by what I link to each day in my Delicious stream of links. That way it is a really dynamic list that is always fresh with whoever I think is writing the best stuff, rather than a static list of the same-old-same-old and A-listers.

By: Tracy Boyer

Tracy Boyer — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:40:10 +0000

Hi Mindy!
I am a UNC grad and now work as a multimedia producer for The Roanoke Times. My blog focuses on interactivity on the web (oh-so-cleverly called, “Innovative Interactivity”). I suggest checking out some of my posts, as well as my favorite blog, FlowingData. With the high demand to produce more data-heavy interactives, this site is a great resource to get ideas for visualizing data on the web. It’s not specifically written for journalists, but I know it helps me a lot while working on projects!

Innovative Interactivity: http://tracynboyer.blogspot.com/

Flowing Data: http://flowingdata.com/