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Happy 6-year blogiversary to me! 🎉 To celebrate I want to talk about other peoples’ blogs, more specifically the magic of “blogrolls”. Blogrolls are “lists of other sites that you read, are a follower of, or recommend”. Any blog can host a blogroll, or sometimes websites can be one big blogroll.
I’ve hosted a blogroll on my own blog since 2023 and encourage other bloggers to do so. My own blogroll is generated from the list of RSS feeds I subscribe to and articles that I “favorite” within my RSS reader. If you want to be particularly fancy you can add an RSS feed (example) to your blogroll that provides readers a method to “subscribe” for future blogroll updates.
Blogrolls are like catnip for me: I cannot resist opening and Ctrl-clicking
every link until I can’t see my tabs anymore. The feeling is akin to the first deep breath
of air before starting a hike: there’s a rush of new information, topics, and potential new blogs
to follow.
Blogrolls can bridge the “effort chasm” I frequently hear as an issue when I recommend folks try an RSS feed reader. We’re not used to empty feeds anymore; self-curating blogs until you receive multiple articles per day takes time and effort. Blogrolls can help here, especially ones that publish using the importable OPML format.
You can instantly populate your feed reader app with hundreds of feeds from blogs that are likely relevant to you. Simply create an account on a feed reader, import the blogroll OPML document from a blogger you enjoy, and watch the articles “roll” in. Blogrolls are almost like Bluesky “Starter Packs” in this way!
Hopefully this has convinced you to either curate your own blogroll or to start looking for (or asking for!) blogrolls from your favorite writers on the Web. Share your favorite blogroll with me on email or social media. Title inspired by “Hexagons are the Best-agons”.
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