How much is my swicki worth?
On the lower right sidebar of my blog (if any of you actually read the blog on the site vs RSS) there is a Swicki. Yesterday I got an email from the Swiki folks which noted that my swicki is theoretically worth $49,581.60 - boy, that would be cool, no? Of course, this depends on if my contributions are useful, people search on my blog, etc. And if I'm astute enough to do anything about it. Right now the darn thing is buried below my infernally long blogroll.(I don't seem to be particularly driven by this source of revenue, but I suspect I should. Perhaps I would not feel so compelled to work so hard!)
How much is my swicki worth?
By the way, I am trimming my blogroll and am actually thinking about doing away with it. What do you think? Is it useful anymore?
posted by Nancy White at 3:58 PM
6 Comments:
This last question really interests me as I get deeper and deeper into blogging. I find many blogs everyday I love. They all have blog rolls. I used to think I was "missing out" if I skipped a New Yorker or Economist for the week. Now that I have blog favorites, I am lost.
I have used your blog roll to find other interesting bloggers. (So thanks!) I say keep it, but I think it would be helpful to create a section that you read on a regular basis and fits with the purpose of your blog.
I never had a blogroll until I put a Grazr box in my sidebar. Now it provides live previews of all my favorites. Might tickle your fancy as well.
My first thought about you losing your blogroll was ACK! No! Like pavlusha, I've found new blogs on your blogroll.
But then again, my own blogroll is bothering me and has been for months. I pulled most of it down and put up the BlogHer blog links and just kept close friends, 5-6 new to me blogs (which I change monthly) and the little Technorati thing that links to my 50 favorites. It's all still bothering me, quite a bit.
I don't know what to do about it so I can't begin to tell you what to do about yours. I can, however, ask you the questions that I'm asking myself...
1) why do you have a blogroll?
2) what do you hope to gain or provide by having a blogroll and is that working for you?
3) why are you thinking about doing away with it?
4) what would you do instead? (if anything)
5) you care about community and providing link love, I know you do, so how can you let go of that blogroll and still provide the love?
And I'm done - I don't have the answers to those questions for myself - yet. But I'm working on it and would be very interested in hearing some of your answers (if you deem them helpful to you).
Useful observations, all.
Denise,
1. why do I have a blogroll? At first I thought it was just what one does. :-) Then I decided it was may way to promote other blogs I think are cool. The problem is that list is really over 500 blogs long and I've had to hide some of them because the page is unmanagable. So a blogroll no longer fills the needs. I think it is more like something that shares my blog reading list more efficiently. (Marshall, I'll check out Grazr)
2. What do I have to gain? Nothing. I'm not asking people to link to me nor am I interested in the trading links approach. Too high maintenance.
3. Why do away with it? See #1 above.
4. Instead? Profile cool blogs in blog posts and find a way to share my blog subscription list in a way different than a right side blogroll list.
5. Link love - do blogrolls really do a good job of that anyway?
Heh, I just scrapped my post for the day (well saved unfinished as draft) so I can post about blogrolls instead.
specifically about #2 and #5.... I like your answers, but they aren't exactly the same as mine - obviously. :-)
OK I've blogged it and I'm fiddling with your glazr and working on getting my own. It's not the answer for me, not completely, but I think it is going to be helpful.
Thanks Nancy.
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