A few weeks ago, using Avedon Carol's blogroll, I posted this:
below are a list of blogs that I would appreciate being blogrolled from, and that I think the content here is appropriate to be blogrolled from on a regular basis. And I'd provide a link back, obviously. I'm mostly curious as to whether anyone will salute such an approach - you know, blog barter diplomacy.
It worked better than I expected - and I've added several blogs to the blogroll due to it, and so, I thought I'd try it again. This time, I'll use Skippy's blogroll, as seen below:
Blah3 - CorrenteWire - Cryptome - Dependable Renegage - Excuse the Mess... That was Just My Head - First Draft - Main and Central - One Good Move - Rising Hegemon - Scrutiny Hooligans - Today in Iraq - WTF Is It Now? - American Leftist - And, yes, I DO take it personally - The Barefoot Bum - Big Tent Democrat - Blue Girl, Red State - Democratic Left Infoasis - Dr. X's Free Associations - Drawing The Line - Edgeing - Hill Country Gal - Jelly Pizza - Kmareka - Left End of the Dial - Lotus - Surviving a Dark Time - The Mandarin - my Thinking spot - Never in Our Names - The Osterly Times - Peace, Love and Erica Campbell - Real's World - SocraticGadfly - VidiotSpeak - Welcome to Pottersville - Welcome to the Revolution - The American Street - Booman Tribune - Calitics - ePluribus Media - Independent Bloggers' Alliance - MyDD - My Left Wing - Square State - SoapBox Blue Jersey - West Virginia Blue - 618 Rants and Raves - The Adventures of the Smart Patrol - The Agonist - Alien & Sedition - Altercation - Alternet's Peek - All Things Democrat - Amahchewahwah - American Politics Journal - American Samizdat - And Yes, I Do Take It Personally - Apostropher - Arblogger - Archy - Are You Effin' Kidding Me? - As I Please - B12 Solipsism - Bad Attitudes - Badtux the Snarky Penguin - The Barefoot Bum - Bear Waller Hollar - Michael Berube Online - A Bird and a Bottle - Billmon - Blast Off! - BlogAmY - The Blogging Curmudgeon - Blogging Out Loud - Bloggityblog-Blog-Blog - Blogtopus - Blogwood: Norwood's Nattering - BlondeSense - Blue Gal - Blue Girl, Red State - Blue Grass Roots - Blue Streak - Body and Soul - The Brad Blog - Bride of Acheron - Brilliant at Breakfast - The Broad View - Bring It On - Buddhist Jihad - Bunko Squad - Burned Over District - Busy, Busy, Busy - Cannablog - Captain Dyke - Chapomatic - Chuck for - Coeruleus - The Core4 - The Countess - Covert History - Coyote Mercury - Staring at Empty Pages - Crooks & Liars - Cynical Nation - D-Day - The Daily Background - The Daily Blatt - dKos Bloggers - Dashiell - Gail Davis - DC Media Girl - Brad De Long - Deb's Quirky Web - The Democratic Daily - Democratic Veteran - Disguested in St. Louis - Dizzy Dayz - DemoKat - D.R. Scott's Pulp Culture - Drinking Liberally in New Milford - Done With Mirrors - Down With Tyranny! - Doxagora - Echidne of the Snakes - Electrolite - Ellen's Illinois 10th Congressional District Blog - Evil George's Personal Website - Evil Mommy - Ex Cathedra - Faux Real - Fiat Lux - Fire Ant - Firedog Lake - First Draft - Fold to Combine - Folkbum's Rambles and Rants - Foreign Policy Watch - The Galloping Beaver - Bob Geiger - Good Nonsense - Grits for Breakfast - Gropinator - The Gypsy's Caravan - The Hackenblog by ginger mayerson - Happy Furry Puppy Story Time w/Norbizness - Harp and Sword - Bob Harris - Hoffmania - Hoot at the Dark - Hotflash - Howard-Empowered People - Hullabaloo - Humor Has It - If I Ran the Zoo - The Immoral Minority - The Impolitic - Incertus - Instaputz - Interrobang's Internationale:The Real Interroblog - Intrepid Liberal Journal - Jelly Pizza - The Jewish Blog - Jinky the Cat - Jobsanger - John's Blog - Just Ain't Right - The Kenosha Kid's Blog - Kid Oakland - The Kitchen Sink Collective - Knoxviews - Last One Speaks - The Left End of the Dial v2.0 - Lawnorder - Left I on the News - Left in SF - Lean Left - Liberal Catnip - Liberal Common Sense - Liberal Oasis - A Lie A Day - Like Sunday - Linkmeister - Loaded Mouth - Lunaville - Mahablog - Main St. USA - Majikthise - Make Them Accountable - Man Eegee - Taylor Marsh - Max Speak - Media Needle - Mia Culpa - Migra Matters - Mister Apologist - Mr. Helpful - Mixter's Mix - The Moderate Man - Monkeyfister - My Thinking Corner - My Two Cents - My View of It - Needlenose - The Needs of the Few - Newsback - The News Blog by Steve Gilliard - Newscoma - Newsroom-L.Net - New Pairodimes - Nine Pearls - No Blood for Hubris - No Fish, No Nuts - North Shore Journal - Old Fashioned Patriot - Objectivist v. Constuctivist v. Theist - Olio - Orcinus - P! - Pacific Views - Patriot Daily - Patriside - Peace Tree Farm - People's Republic of Seabrook - Perception Managers - Peripetia - Pissed on Politics - Plucky Punk's Happyland - Plum Crazy - Political Animal - The Political Cat - Politickybitch - The Poor Man Institute - Pudentilla's Perspective - Pygalgia - Ranger Against War - Rants from the Rookery - Reality Frame - The Reef Ahead - Resident Bush - Rittenhouse Review - Rodger A. Payne's Blog - Roger Ailes, Over and Out - Rubber Hose - Rude Pundit - Ruminate This - Sack of Monkeys in My Pocket - Sadly, No! - Scoobie Davis - Shadow of the Hegemon - Simply Left Behind - Sisyphus Shrugged - Skimble - Louise Slaughter - Smirking Chimp - the S.N.A.F.U. principle - Snow Moon - Solarray - Spiiderweb - The Spinning Goth - Spocko's Brain - Spontaneous Arising - Staring at Empty Pages - SteveAudio - The Strange Death of Liberal America - Stump Lane - Survivor Left Blogistan - The Talent Show - Talk Left - Talking Dog - Tami, The One True - Tholos of Athena - Three Wise Men - Tbogg - Tom Tomorrow - Joe Trippi - The Truth Laid Bear - Truth Serum - Two Ton Green Blog - Universal Health - Unsolicited Opinion - The Vanity Press - Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy - Virgotext - Vodka Pundit - Vidiot Speak - Waiting for Dorothy - Watergate Summer - Westminster Wisdom - West Virginia Blue - Whiskey Fire - The Whole American Hog - WTF Is It Now? - tblog - Xoverboard - Zen Comix - ZenYenta -Anxiety, Addiction and Depression Treatments - The Biomes Blog - A Blog Around the Clock - Deltoid (Tim Lambert) - The Intersection (Chris Mooney) - Mike the Mad Biologist(Mike) - Pharyngula, by PZ Myers - Quark Soup - Respectful Insolence - Science and Politics
(yeah, it's a huge list)
Just wandered in here through Technorati when I realized you had linked to me. Anyways, cool blog- I've subscribed via RSS and added you to Ye Olde Blogroll.
-Arlen
Cheers!
I 'rolled ya, with a mia culpa for my tardiness!
Cheers, fella!
--mf
On Grits, though, I'm afraid I'll decine. Not for any slight to your blog, but because I focus on a narrow range of issues, almost entirely at the state level. Also, I frequently and fairly ruthlessly cull my blogroll and add new ones so that it reflects what I'm actually reading, and after perusing your content, you probably don't cover my issues enough to make the cut based on that metric.
One other thought on your experiment, which again, I think is fun and clever, but just to offer a counterpoint - over the 2.5 years I've been blogging I've come to think less of # of links or even traffic as metrics, at least for political blogs, but impact in the world on the topics you write about. Blogs are for elites and information seekers, not a masss audience.
What I want for my own blog is not a huge number of readers but QUALITY readers - in politics that means opinion leaders, media, activists, and government workers and officials. If you only have ten readers but one is a decisionmaker who acts on your information, that's better than 2,000 people reading a link from INstapundit.
Suerte, amigo - I'll check back from time to time. Quien sabe? Maybe you'll earn the link yet through quality blogging fare! best,
Larry, The Barefoot Bum
http://barefootbum.blogspot.com
Thanks for the considerate offer!
Stephen
Drinking Liberally in New Milford
I am similar, in that I cover "mostly" local Connecticut stuff, but my way around it is to have a "local pubs" Blogroll and a national one labeled "top shelf"...
It costs me nothing to link to another Blog... But it does raise their rankings on search engines (every link counts! lol). The most effective tool we have in helping everyone, and ourselves, at the same time.
At the same time, I regret to say that I am declining your kind and generous offer.
My link policy is a simple one: I link in my blogroll to anyone whom I source for a blog post. I expect nothing in return from those to whom I link. My linking is all about what I read and what catches my interest, and not at all about those whose interest I catch.
Because I use resources like del.icio.us to cast my net wide for things to write about, I'm not just limiting myself to picking up what the top tier bloggers have already blogged. It's not like I'm the Great Orange Satan when it comes to my blogroll.
Thank you for thinking of me, and good luck.
Mixter
Note to other commentators: Anyone who blogrolls Stump Lane gets a reciprocal link.
-Diane(Desi)
Thanks!
http://the-osterley-times.blogspot.com/
The blogroll on my site is the list of blogs I'm currently reading. I'll happily add you to the list -- but be warned, I've self-imposed a limit on the number of blogs in my blogroll as a way of keeping my blog-reading habit under control. Any time I add a new blog to my blogroll, I force myself to remove an old one, so no guarantees of permanence. (full explanation here)
You have a fascinating idea. What would take it one step further would be if everyone on your list would agree to link with everyone else.
Now a few snobs won't play this game. I have written firedoglake and Booman a dozen times and never received the courtesy of a reply. I guess they don't think too much of us "little people." I put them in the same class as DKos, etc. with their "purge."
Take care and keep blogging!
All three might be useful things to have. Simply having a mass mutual link-fest, without regard to who's out there, seems to me to throw open the doors rather wider than I care to. It also could multiply your blogroll into the thousands in a matter of a few days. I find that even if 200 or so sites link to mine (I think that's roughly the current figure), most of my traffic only comes from one tenth of them, and literally none from the rest. But that could be my case only.
At any rate, thanks for making me think about what my blogroll is, which, currently, I'd have to describe as a muddle.
I am pretty certain that skippy would give a tip of the hat to that hillarious "CONservative" with the "Liberal Blogrolling policy", Jon swift. But yes, skippy deserves a lot of credit for getting more people to think about it.
Good Nonsense