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.
