So that’s why I never get anything done
Working on converting my tons of bookmarked blogs, plus my Blogtracker list, plus all the blogs I only see when I happen to catch them on weblogs.com and all the blogs that I’ve lost track of because I forgot to add them to any list, to my list at blo.gs so that I can use the totally cool share your favorites feature as a blogroll in recently-updated order. So rather than search out everything, I’m just running through the alphabetical list, looking for things in visited-link color. Twenty days worth of my blog visiting is translating into an pretty big list, out of an enormous list of everyone who has pinged weblogs or antville or gblogs or linkwatcher or publishes on pitas, which is just a tiny fragment of the incomprehensibly monstrous lists of everyone who is publishing a webloggy sort of thing. Blogspace desperately needs some good method for discovering new blogs, but the only ways I’ve come up with so far are using Blogtracker’s “new” list to find blogs that are new to pinging weblogs.com (which translates to new Movable Type and Radio blogs, and freshly Blogger Pro’d blogs), and trying to start a meme akin to “Friday Five” along the lines of “Sunday New” (clearly, I need a catchier title to start with). So, how do you find new blogs to read?
Maybe you can get Dave to write some kind of ”new to weblogs.com” routine that will publish a separate list of blogs.
Failing that, good old word of mouth.
I should have drafted this post until I rewrote it for a little clarity. I don’t need Dave to do ”new to weblogs” (though he should), since Blogtracker already does it, if you sign up for an account (a painless and quick process). The real problem with ”new to weblogs.com” is that I don’t want to see most people’s first post: I’d much rather have ”new a week ago and still posting”. Hmmm. That would be worth doing…