I am not a great fan of re-blogging (which is when the blog just points to other people’s blogposts). What Linkroll allows me to do is to keep this as an essay-type blog and yet share with you the nice blogposts that I find.
My “Linkroll” is in the sidebar (it’s just above the Blogroll section). If you are reading this in a newsreader, you can access it by clicking here. It contains the best posts that I encounter while browsing the blogfeeds that I have subscribed to. So I have shared the best 167 or so posts on the linkroll. Do take a look at them.
As many of you know I sit down to blog after dinner. This works great because I don’t have to worry about a time limit (well, until sleep really kick in). The downside is that dinner engagements come in the way of blogging. As you may have guessed the last few days have been busy dinner nights. I hope to be back to my normal schedule from tomorrow.
Hi Sharad,
I think reblogging does have its advantages over a linkroll. In the link roll, I can just see the title of the post on the basis of which I need to decide whether that is interesting to me or not. On the other hand, in reblogging, typically the reblogger will give at least a one-line summary of why s/he finds that post interesting. Also, there will be a mention of the name of the destination blog or blogger with possibly and adjective giving some indication of how much importance/relevance attaches to that post.
Of course the downside is that if you start re-blogging everything you find interesting, you will end up with too many posts in your blog. One way in which other prominent bloggers have solved this problem is by having a “quick links” kind of a post once a week where interesting links from the previous week are listed along with a one-line description.
You are right Navin that a one-line summary makes a difference. Yet the Linkroll is so easy to do - its just a matter of marking the blogpost in Google Reader - that it wins over the “quick links”.
My suggestion is that you subscribe to my Linkroll feed. To do this, click on the “Read more…” link at the bottom of the Linkroll. This will bring you to my shared items page in Google Reader (you can also get there by going here). You can subscribe to the RSS feed for this page. This lets you read my Linkroll feed in a news reader much like the main blog. It solves the one-line summary problem.