New to me

If I had a blogroll (a list of links to blogs that I read), I’d be adding the blogs listed below. None of them are new, just new to me. All were blogging Internet Librarian, and I met all the authors, at least briefly. Links to the feeds are in there too (a mixed bag of RSS 1, 2, and Atom) as well as links to interesting recent posts.

• Libraryman by Michael Porter. Feed Cool recent post: GeoMapped Libs on geotagging photos of libraries in the Libraries and Librarians pool on Flickr.
• Library Techtonics by Andrea Mercado. Feed Cool recent post: Flickr as digital collection hosting example
• Library Web Chic by Karen A. Coombs. Feed Cool recent post: Tweaking Movable Type
• Queequeg’s Content Saloon by Erica Reynolds. Feed Cool recent post: The best session I have ever heard at Internet Librarian. Ever. Pay attention to Ann Arbor District Library…it’s even cooler than you think

Death of the blogroll?

It seems like fewer and fewer blogs have blogrolls. A few years ago, blogrolls seemed like a vital part of the blogging experience, helping readers find other interesting sites. I’m guessing that the widespread use of RSS has made blogrolls unmanageable (since RSS makes it easier to read so many blogs) and less necessary (the first time I hit a blog I like, I add it to my aggregator, so I don’t need someone’s list to point me there). Maybe once I get it cleaned up, I’ll link to my Bloglines subscriptions from the sidebar here.