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Re: When a Blogroll Isn’t a Blogroll

mrshl — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:55:10 -0000

First, I think Adam's right here, Mark. I followed these instructions last night in writing my own piece, and what I get is a real blog roll. Perhaps you are choosing the "add a clip to your site," which is right next to the "add a blogroll to your site" button. Check it again.

Second, I direct both of you something I noticed last night, which is that Lacey appears to be an enthusiastic Bloglines user. You can see that on his site, too. I thought that was kind of odd, but understandable for reasons I make clear.

Re: When a Blogroll Isn’t a Blogroll

Kevin — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:55:02 -0000

That said, Mark is right that this uses Javascript, so the traditional SEO benefits of putting this on your blog are changed, though I imagine Google is now taking things like this into account anyway (feed subscribers, shared items, stars, etc...).

Mark, I am getting the new functionality by following the instructions. Could be yours isn't live yet, perhaps.

Re: When a Blogroll Isn’t a Blogroll

Kevin — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:48:58 -0000

Exactly what I thought, Adam.

What Mark describes in this post is a feature that's been available in Google Reader for awhile - the "Shared Items Feed," which I'm using on my blog now.

This new blogroll is great if for no other reason than it saves tedious amounts of Copy/Paste.

Re: When a Blogroll Isn’t a Blogroll

Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:43:22 -0000

Adam, while you were right about the posting error about my sentence (it's fixed now), the post isn't factually wrong. GReader generates a javascript river of posts for the tag you create. perhaps Steve's using a different script, but the one available using the instructions steve gives only provides a river.

Re: When a Blogroll Isn’t a Blogroll

Adam Kalsey — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:28:03 -0000

What does this mean: "describes how he make what he calls a blogroll on his site can take a look at what he likes to read." I can't even comprehend what you were trying to say.

Regardless, this posting is just plain factually wrong. The entire purpose and premise of this posting is that the Google Reader blogroll isn't a blogroll because it's the contents of a number of blogs, instead of direct links to those blogs.

Not sure what you're looking at, but here's an excerpt of what I see in Steve's blogroll...

# Blog Maverick
# Boing Boing
# Box.net Blog
# Carsonified!
# 'Change, Culture, Creativity, Communication'
# Charlie Owen

Sure looks like a list of blogs to me.