Thursday, December 8, 2011

Linkography Renovations

by pennywise
 Keeping up with my own blog is one challenge; keeping up with everybody else's is another.  Those meet in my subscriptions (see Complete [sic]  Profile) and in my links widget.  I knew my subs were a bit of a mess, and that I wanted my links offerings to be something more in ways that the sidebar and widget would not accommodate.  So I set out to go through the blogs that I have been trying to keep up with, and the sites that I use for specific purposes, and organize them into something helpful and commendatory.  I was pretty strict with myself, listing sites that are newer to me or that I haven't been turning to as much in a document that I would return to reevaluate for addition.  I'm sure it isn't perfect: I kept finding blogs that I thought I was subscribed to that I wasn't, or remembering a site that had slipped my mind.  I have yet to go through my bookmarks (they are even more a mess), so I view it as a sketch of my habits and judgment and a work-in-progress, but I am hoping that it will be more useful than the side widget I have consigned to the ether.  There seem to me two purposes that this fills: 1. The possibility of introducing folks to worthy sites, and 2. provided additional context for interested readers.  Naturally, as sites change and I change, it will change.

The result is a new page called Linkography, accessible in the far right tab at the top of the page.  I hope that this is more helpful and interesting than the widget, although I regret that there is now an extra step to access it and it may be less visible.