Comments on: Link Blogs

By: FredOnSomething

FredOnSomething — Thu, 26 May 2005 14:20:13 +0000

Why not considering Del.icio.us or Spurl? Much more simple than creating another blog, faster and you can easily show the last 10 entries of the feed here, on your blog.

Fred

By: Nicole Simon

Nicole Simon — Thu, 26 May 2005 09:16:38 +0000

Feed and title would be enough. I did ‘blogbaits’ some time ago, where I just had a post on my blog evey some days with just the links and some short comments why this is interesting in one post.

By: Rob Lewis

Rob Lewis — Thu, 26 May 2005 08:10:10 +0000

I agree with Michael -give me a descriptive title, a brief description if possible and an RSS feed and I’d be happy!

By: Michael Moncur

Michael Moncur — Thu, 26 May 2005 02:42:17 +0000

I love having a link blog because sometimes I want to save a link to something (and let others know) but I just don’t have much to say about it, or much time. I’ve been trying to do more real posts and less links lately, though.

I say go for it as long as it has a separate RSS feed…

By: Bill Peschel

Bill Peschel — Thu, 26 May 2005 02:24:01 +0000

I have 102 blogs to check on bloglines, so I would need something more than just a title to go on (like your friend is doing). It seems like what you’re doing now is sufficient (and, BTW, I loved your link to “To-Done” and “Be a more productive blogger).

But just links? Nah.

By: Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley — Thu, 26 May 2005 02:19:43 +0000

I’ve given thought to this in the past as well, and I will admit that should you launch one I’m likely to read it, but for my liking it changes the nature of your own personal enjoyment of reading other blogs and feeds because instead of reading for enjoyment and pleasure, every post becomes a potential entry into your link blog. Secondly you need to be cautious into what a link blog says about yourself. Done properly its a good thing, done badly it will make you look like an ostentatious w@nker (apologies about language, only way to describe it). At the end of the day you need to consider the result of this to yourself as a “brand”, will it strengthen of weaken brand Darren Rowse? Will it take away from other more profitable sections of the Darren Rowse empire? etc…

By: Malach

Malach — Thu, 26 May 2005 01:47:12 +0000

In the past, I’ve used del.icio.us for this – just an RSS parser in the sidebar that displays the most recent 10 or so bookmarks in a certain category.

I did this on my old blog (which used Drupal), but haven’t set it up on my current ones yet. However, a quick google gave me this and it looks rather easy to do – might be a task for this evening :)

By: Vix

Vix — Thu, 26 May 2005 01:24:31 +0000

You could have a short list of links on the sidebar with a URL to the full listing. I’d like to see the title, link and a brief description of what the link is all about.

By: Patrick Grote

Patrick Grote — Thu, 26 May 2005 01:22:10 +0000

Anything with a feed.

By: Danger Stevens

Danger Stevens — Thu, 26 May 2005 01:11:00 +0000

Ditto. I think it would even be fine if it were just links, no descriptions. For me the main benefit would be gaining insight into what you read and adding those things to my own feed reader. I’ve noticed recently that my feed collection is a lopsided and dismally small perspective on the web.

By: Paul Short

Paul Short — Thu, 26 May 2005 00:54:56 +0000

Hey Darren, one thing that fascinates me personally is gaining insight into what other people read and their thoughts on it. If you started a link blog that included the title of the referenced article and a sentence as a summary of your own thoughts on the subject, I’d be one of the first to subscribe.