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Saturday, December 04, 2004

 

Blogs People Love

More apolitics. (If that's a word, and if it's not it should be.)

In an earlier post today, WLIR directed you to a dKos entry about the "non-titan" political blogs we visit regularly. A nice spin on this is the listing of "my daily reads that you should be reading, but might not have heard of" over on Something Requisitely Witty and Urbane.

OT: I admit with some shame that I -- Web geek though I am -- have not been able to keep WLIR's list of blogs (in the left-side menu) updated to my utter satisfaction. There are two problems here:
  1. Every time I come across (or, per skippy, have said hello to) a new blog I'd like to list, I've got to copy the blog's URL, then paste it into my Blogger template. Typically, the result is a multitude of browser tabs open at the same time -- so many, indeed, that I almost never have time to get to all the blogs open in all the tabs to copy-and-paste all of their URLs and titles to the freaking template. Bleech.
  2. The obvious solution is to use something called BlogRolling, or something like it, which as I understand it simply allows you to right-click and add the current page to your "blogroll." But the list which BlogRoller maintains is a simple list, perhaps organized alphabetically -- not a categorized list (which I'm trying to use here).
If you've got any ideas how to resolve this, especially if they don't require a radical solution such as "Buy a subscription to BlogRolling Premium!", feel free to let me know about it in the comments.

(Aside: I don't know if there actually is a service called BlogRolling Premium, or -- if there is -- whether it includes a "categorized blogroll" feature. I take it as a point of studied, genteel-poverty pride never to investigate any paid features of any service as long as a free alternative is available.)

Comments:
Hey, thanks for the link.

When I was on blogger, I used blogrolling.com, but you are right, there is no real categorization.

Since moving to typepad, they have a typelist system, allowing you to create as many lists as you want, so you could do your categories.

I highly recommend typepad anyway. You do have to pay, but it is inexpensive, and the benefits outweigh the costs.
 
Re: typepad... I know, I know... that does seem to be where the pros end up (with some exceptions, obviously). Poked my head in there about six months ago and immediately yanked it back. I started a blog here on Blogger in 1997-98, didn't keep it up for more than a few months. My notions of blog-making have thus been frozen in amber for six years, and all the shiny knobs and dials at typepad rather dizzied me (even though, as I said, I'm something of a Web geek anyhow). Thanks for the heads-up; I will venture into it again soon.

Welcome for the link, too. Funny enough, it was checking out SRWU* which tipped me over the edge of frustration about having to add links thru the template.

*Which I'd found by way of the '04 Weblog Awards poll, congrats on the nomination and good luck with that!
 
I hear ya... I was reticent to come over to typepad too, but a week of up and down blogger availability finally forced me over. I was surprised, thought they can be a bit cookie cutter, the amount that the bells and whistles of typepad could really do.

As for the award nomination... thanks for the well-wishes, but I don't stand a chance. Still trying to figure out just how I got on the list in the first place.

Feel free to check in on SRWU anytime and comment.
 
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