Chickens, just chilling.
I’ve updated the blogroll page – the previous blogroll was a code from Google Reader but once they went kaboom the blogroll also vanished..
This blogroll has been hell to create involving the other half, magic coding and secret tricks to alphabetise the list, plus then I had to go through the list and make sure the URLs were correct which involved manually clicking through to each blog.
Please do not think that if you are listed last that means anything other than your blog begins with Z. The list is alphabetical.
In fact, in my feedreader everything is contained within folders, and Zazzy would probably be shocked to know she is in my very first folder which is rather oddly named aaaafaves. Frogdancer and her fellow Aussies are just below in AAussies
The aLadies folder is where people like Jocelyn from Mama’s Style – Tia Cherie and Suger would find themselves.
But wait, a couple of these are Aussies? Yes, this is true. I have to go through a massive list of new blogs I subscribed to over the past 6 months to work out if they should stay in Ladies or head to Aussies. I was on a fashion blog subscribing spree and not considering the long term organisation of my feeds.
Don’t worry Ladies, you still get read on the day you publish a post – and organising my feeds is presently high on my todo list, after fixing my blogroll and choosing and customising a new blog design.
As I have been clicking through to the blogs on the list, I’ve noticed a lot of them have not updated in a while, some dating back to 2006.
After going through the entire list, there are 321 blogs listed – and that is after I deleted those which went to a wrong place, no longer existed or had not updated since 2007.
I don’t delete a blog from my feed reader unless the blog no longer exists, which means if and when people return to it, I get the next post they write. If it is on my blogroll, it is in my feed reader. :)
My current cut off for the blogroll is – 2008 – if you posted after 2008 and you are in my feed reader, you should have been listed on the blogroll.
If you are reading this and you have a blog and you are missing from the new Blogroll list please let me know in the comments for this post.
Each day I would have somewhere around 150-180 new posts to read. Some of the blogs have 5-10 posts a day, though, so numbers are not really a fair representation of, well, anything.
I’m going to put together a little featurette on some of my most favourite blogs in the world, as well as my most favourite bloggers. I might even try to get some of them to answer a few questions if possible.
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A small update on the work front – this is going to be a longer process than I’d hoped. I’d love to be able to talk about it here but it would not be especially safe to do so. I might put up a protected post later if this drags on too long because I might want to rage type it all out. If I do, all you need to do to get the password for it is email me – best to use the contact form here on the blog. :)
Trying to organize my feed reader and my blogroll on the blog is complicated and I don’t read nearly the number of blogs that you do. But like you, I don’t delete a blog out of my reader unless I know it’s truly gone – you never know when a favorite blogger might return. However, my blogroll is much much smaller than my feed. It pretty much only has blog friends on it. Much of my feed is blogs that I read but don’t comment on plus some popular blogs who wouldn’t care whether they were on my blogroll or not.
Meh. Oh, by the way, I like being last on the list. I appreciate that you have me higher in your reader folders, but I don’t mind at all bringing up the rear on the big list.
I was wondering how the work thing was going. It is probably safer to not have the situation in the public section of your blog.
You are certainly well organised! I keep up with all my blogs through bloglovin and currently follow 923 blogs. Thats without them being in any folders or sorted in any way. I really should go through them all because a lot of them are dead or not updating.
“some blogs have 5-10 posts a day”
?????? really? when do they eat? sleep? do anything else?
I just saw this, today, and love the chicken picture.