Comments on: Blogroll – Bad Social Networking http://etbe.coker.com.au/2007/12/14/blogroll-bad-social-networking/ Linux, politics, and other interesting things Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:09:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Graeme Robinson http://etbe.coker.com.au/2007/12/14/blogroll-bad-social-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-11476 Graeme Robinson Mon, 17 Dec 2007 03:45:06 +0000 http://etbe.coker.com.au/2007/12/14/blogroll-bad-social-networking/#comment-11476 I disagree - a blogroll is just a view of the blogs I subscribe to - there's no reason why anyone should assume I'm recommending them, unless I explicitly do so in my blog posts. They tell you more about about who I am because they reflect my reading - its a bit ridiculous to get offended by what other people read surely? Further my blogroll is automatic - it pulls my fluctuating list of subscriptions directly from my google reader account and as I'm an active reader of blogs and am constantly changing the list of subs, it changes on my blog accordingly with no intervention from me. I disagree – a blogroll is just a view of the blogs I subscribe to – there’s no reason why anyone should assume I’m recommending them, unless I explicitly do so in my blog posts. They tell you more about about who I am because they reflect my reading – its a bit ridiculous to get offended by what other people read surely?

Further my blogroll is automatic – it pulls my fluctuating list of subscriptions directly from my google reader account and as I’m an active reader of blogs and am constantly changing the list of subs, it changes on my blog accordingly with no intervention from me.

]]> By: etbe http://etbe.coker.com.au/2007/12/14/blogroll-bad-social-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-11434 etbe Sat, 15 Dec 2007 00:04:24 +0000 http://etbe.coker.com.au/2007/12/14/blogroll-bad-social-networking/#comment-11434 Olaf: Thanks. I had got too used to using abbreviated URLs such as "www.example.com" and forgot that you need the http:// part in a web page. Lloeki: I don't believe that XFN solves any of the issues that I raise, unless of course you use it instead of having a blogroll on the main page. Olaf: Thanks. I had got too used to using abbreviated URLs such as “www.example.com” and forgot that you need the http:// part in a web page.

Lloeki: I don’t believe that XFN solves any of the issues that I raise, unless of course you use it instead of having a blogroll on the main page.

]]> By: Lloeki http://etbe.coker.com.au/2007/12/14/blogroll-bad-social-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-11428 Lloeki Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:06:15 +0000 http://etbe.coker.com.au/2007/12/14/blogroll-bad-social-networking/#comment-11428 that's why the XFN exists, and a proper blogroll would ideally make use of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHTML_Friends_Network and especially this: http://gmpg.org/xfn/11 e.g wordpress has a nice interface to this for its blogroll were you can specify xfn attributes easily for a given blogroll url. so yes, the blogroll is good, but yes its use is deviant in many places, as you described above. that’s why the XFN exists, and a proper blogroll would ideally make use of this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHTML_Friends_Network
and especially this:
http://gmpg.org/xfn/11
e.g wordpress has a nice interface to this for its blogroll were you can specify xfn attributes easily for a given blogroll url.

so yes, the blogroll is good, but yes its use is deviant in many places, as you described above.

]]> By: Olaf van der Spek http://etbe.coker.com.au/2007/12/14/blogroll-bad-social-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-11425 Olaf van der Spek Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:10:39 +0000 http://etbe.coker.com.au/2007/12/14/blogroll-bad-social-networking/#comment-11425 http://feeds.feedburner.com/etbe/www.technorati.com? http://feeds.feedburner.com/etbe/www.technorati.com?

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