Joho the Blog
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October 29, 2007
While chatting with Chris Heuer today — one of those f2f chats like they used to have when our homes were lit with whale oil — we had an idea. We were talking about blogrolls and Grazr. I was complaining (about myself, to myself) that I don't update my blogroll hardly ever, and when I do, I find it to be a psycho-socially fraught activity. On the other hand, the blog-writing software I use logs every link I make, along with the date and the anchor text. So, imagine if you will a blogroll that consists of the places I link to most often, the places I've linked to most recently, the anchor text phrases I've linked to most often, or (if I started logging more data about each link) the places I've linked to sorted by the tags I've applied to the posts the links are in. And a lot more, too. Imagine aggregating all this socially. Why not? It's just technology. [Tags: blogroll blogs chris_heuer everything_is_miscellaneous] Posted
by D. Weinberger at October 29, 2007 08:16 PM
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This is also somewhat similar to the Faceback concept.
Posted by: Sara Bocaneanu | October 29, 2007 11:36 PM
With more people who care about blogrolls reading via RSS, do blogrolls actually matter any longer? Let's face it - at first, they were an instrumental way to keep track of one's own reading. They later became a proxy for what is now Facebook friends, as Sara points out. At best, they are akin to an Amazon-like reference ("those who like reading JOHO the blog may also like...") For me, discovering a new blog to follow is more likely to happen from a specific post reference rather than a blogroll.
Posted by: Mark Federman | October 30, 2007 08:17 AM
Blogs may be useful for cheerleading and other kinds of blather.
But if they're going to considered a vehicle conducive to discussions, then there's at least more links and notifications that are going to have to happen. As one example, there will need to be a need to follow a thread throught all the sundry blogs and comments.
Posted by: Eric Norman | October 30, 2007 08:37 PM