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Also why not to: Try to do someone a favor & all of a sudden it's "Oh, 'smaller than you,' are we? Yada yada." All of our readers from known cybersnarkspace are well aware of whatever crap we'd recommend anyway. Few of the (often international) pervs looking for the celebrity nudie shots we ran in the '00s will give a shit.
Wow, we've almost talked ourself out of this.
- Reads 'Em So You Needn't: green eagle.
- TL;DR, Posts Daily & Also Reads 'Em: Just Above Sunset
- Inspirational: Murder/Suicide
- This Version Is All Videos, All The Time: RedTory v. 3.0.2
- Current News & Events w/ Commentary: WELCOME TO THE NOW
Equally deserving, but not as obsessive:
- BTC News. Personal acquaintance from meatspace.
- bjkeefe. Only web logger who's emailed concerning his listing on the roll. We suspected he was going to ask to be taken the fuck off when we read the header; turned out he was just polite.
- BUTTERMILK SKY. "angry loner (non-violent)"
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#bad2011
Doesn't seem like a very good acronym choice.
Few of the (often international) pervs looking for the celebrity nudie shots we ran in the '00s will give a shit.
Well this domestic perv cares!
Blog-oscopy Editor Types:
We don't follow the "amnesty" part of it, as in "does not mean what you think it means," but who are we to judge? We just want to be like everyone else while pretending we matter.
You care about now-aged celebrities, semi-naked, thirty, forty yrs. ago? You are a perv. (Takes one to ...)
Thanks for the honorable mention. Been a while since I've been been called "not as obsessive." Perhaps I am, in fact, getting better!
I like the spirit behind the new BAD, especially as it contradicts the original BAD, but I don't much like playing by rules (agreed: who wants to be constrained by or responsible for "five blogs that get less traffic than mine") or doing things just because this has been Declared a Day to do them.
Also, I do take (Atrios's was it?) point behind the original BAD -- at some point, it's either meaningless or misleading for a blogger to list someone on his or her blogroll unless her or she reads that blog at least every now and again. And once enough names are listed, how much good does being added to a list of more than any human could read do any newly-added blogger?
I'm not against blogrolling, or even against big blogrolls, and it's always nice for me to stumble across my name, but really, it seems to me that it's better, somehow, to do a post referring to a new (to the first blog's readers) blog, or at least a specific post on that blog. Give the readers some reason to go check out the other place, either by complimenting it or arguing with it. Perhaps those of use who want to promote lesser-known blogs could try to do that as a regular feature.
On a closely related note, as much as I appreciate people participating in this new BAD, the feeling I've mostly gotten the past few days is just an aggravation of my already existing worries about being scattered and ADHD, a sense of "Oh, no, how am I ever going to keep up?"
Maybe the idea is that if everyone throws a bunch of names out there, a lot of eyeballs will mean a bunch of under-appreciated blogs will have a chance of getting visits from at least a few new potential readers. But there's something about this once-a-year hullabaloo that seems mostly like too much of a good thing all at once. Kind of like the wingnut fapping that takes place on "Veterans Day," while the other 364 days, their attitude is basically "fuck those snivelers and their so-called PTSD."
So, in addition to what I said above about doing posts about a single new blogger, one at a time, on a regular basis, maybe we'd also be better off thinking about the Twitter #FF (#followfriday) tradition. That is, if one does not feel up to writing encomiums, at least the quick mentions would be more frequent. And as a side benefit, they would probably not produce as much angst, not to mention long-windedness, in SOME people I can think of.
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(Jesus, there's more? Yeah, just one more thing.)
It also occurs to me that when I am feeling as though I ought to break out of the sphere of my regular reads, the place I look second (i.e., after following links in posts and tweets) is the comments of the blogs I am reading. Not that I never click a link in a blogroll, but it's usually more likely that I am inclined to investigate someone further if he or she has said something funny or interesting, as part of a conversation.
Okay, really shutting up now.
Well, not as obsessive just means "hadn't posted recently enough when we were trolling the roll."
We really were thinking of giving up, but skippy has been nice to us, & was making noise, so we figured it wouldn't kill us.
Plus we may have gained a sucker or two when mentioned by World o' Crap a few yrs. ago, so karma.
At least it brings a few people from the swamp of 150+ site rolls.
Forgot His Schtick Editor Also Notes:
We used to use our roll a lot, but since we joined the 21st century & set up a reader we don't look at it as often.
So whichever sites didn't make it to the reader don't get as much attention now. Leading to feeling even more scattered & Sisyphean.
Heh. The funny thing about RSS readers for me is that of course I have subscribed to more feeds than any human could keep up with, and so I spend endless amounts of time sorting and rearranging, and sometimes just say fuckit, and go to my blogroll.
P.S. Do you pick these word verification things yourself? roodest
;)
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