Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Happy CNY - and a revamped blogroll

Happy Chinese New Year for all my readers, who are not yet enjoying a decent Chinese meal; I'm just waiting.
But the motherland has come to a new standstill and I took the opportunity to revamp my blogroll, a long overdue activity. I have cleaned up a larger number of non-performing weblogs and have added a number that already made it to my RSS-reader, but now are also added to the blogroll.
The blogroll - originally the key tool to show your affiliations - has lost lot of its original momentum. I cannot recall any instance in the past year I have used a blogroll. Most of the entries come to me through my rss-reader and I would never ever see most of the blogrolls. Aggregators in different formats and search engines have taken over that basic guidance if I'm looking for additional information, not the blogroll.
But more traditional users of the weblog tell me they still like to browse my blogroll, and other bloggers incidentally say they are upset when they have not yet appeared yet after months of hard online work. I hope both groups are happy now, although I have also removed a few useless connections and they might be upset now.
Let me know, if you do not agree with my selections. I might take it into account :-). (Oh yes, I did only do the sections on blogging and China, the rest will follow later.)

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