Sidebar Update

Helen pointed out that I’ve turned up in one of the NZ blog ranking lists at #51. How odd.
This news prompted me to do an update of the sidebar for the first time in about two years… lots of changes there, some blogs on hiatus have been pulled down, a bunch of new ones added, a new section for people I know doing business on the net (hmm, there’s more I can add there too but another day), and… um… yeah. It is long overdue. I had planned to add alt text to all the links so on mouseover they’d pop up a short description of the blog but didn’t make time for that. I am however pleased that I am finally giving some linky back to some of my regular blogreads.
That said, very few people seem to use the sidebar, judging by my blog stats – and now that I run everything through Bloglines and RSS, I don’t much use it myself. Is the blogroll a thing of the past, a dead feature in todays blog interface? Answers on back of postcard plzkthx.
#51, eh? I understand Teh Publishorz give automatic book deals to everyone in the top 25, so that’s something to work towards.

11 thoughts on “Sidebar Update”

  1. I’m on your sidebar!
    I find that exciting. This is the third sidebar I’ve managed to wangle my way onto. Good times; thank you.

  2. I’ve been condensed to just gator?!?
    You have to really know me to be ALLOWED to know me as that.
    The other day I decided that I will from now on refer to my vision as the “path of opulence.”
    I really am just too bored perhaps…..

  3. katie – yarrr!
    ‘gator – I condensed you so I could fit Leon King and God beside you. Then I condensed him too. I can probably expand you back out… I just think my blogroll is plenty long so try to conserve space!

  4. I use the blog sidebar all the time, as it saves me having to find my friends blogs. I use it to find Cal, Alligator, Leon, Matt C, Debbie C, Kate, Conan, Sam and Fish. I may be one of the only ones if that’s what your stats say.
    Good to see Dan R got added to the list. Although now that he posts links on his LJ when he updates his blog, I just use them instead…

  8. And in other news… I had no idea Idiot/Savant’s blog was so highly rated. Or, to be fair, that No Right Turn was his blog. I think you mentioned it once or twice, but I don’t know that I made the connection. I mean, it’s not like he’s famous or something, but still, quite an accomplishment.

  9. Yeah, not famous-famous, but man, every single politician in New Zealand knows his work. The dude matters. 🙂

  10. I read your blog through a syndication to livejournal which links directly to a page that doesn’t actually show your sidebar.
    Congrats on the ranking!

  11. Congrats! And yay! am still Hip Cool Rebel even tho I don’t know the diff bw the Kings of Leon and Leon the God 😉

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