tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2007://1/tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2006://1.7889- 2007-12-03T11:47:49Z Comments for Get rid of blogroll angst Jack Vinson writes about knowledge management, personal effectiveness, theory of constraints and more. As of December 2007 Jack will likely start writing about product management too. Movable Type 4.01 tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2006://1.7889.3402 Comment from tom sherman on 2006-05-25 tom sherman http://underscorebleach.net I took off my "favorite blogs" section a few months ago and haven't missed it.

I don't think blogrolls are particularly useful. Here's why:

1. An unadorned link doesn't describe WHY it's in your blogroll
2. Links in blog posts have much more context and make it more likely that I click on them
3. People link the same crap, over and over and over again
4. Blogrolls clutter the page. Long sidebars must die.

]]> 2006-05-25T17:02:18Z 2006-05-25T17:02:18Z tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2006://1.7889.3404 Comment from Lumpy on 2006-05-27 Lumpy http://www.lumpyscorner.com/TidBits/ When I first did a website it was an ugly little thing on geocities. I had an annoying background, lots of animated GIF's and broke just about every rule of design I didn't knwo about. Once I switched over to a blog, I still kept things prety noisy. Over the past three years I have been cleaning things up little by little.

Now here is what I have noticed, every time I make an improvement I have X number of people say "I like it" and X number of people say "why did you get rid of that?". Honestly, I don't really care much for my long side bars but, they are there, have been there and, if you wish, grab the RSS feed and avoid them completley. In my opinion, clutter vs. clean is seeming to be a matter of surfer taste.

Granted that there are good designs and bad designe, I just don't think we can please everyone. I like my blog roll and I don't mind the clutter. When I read material on the web it usually comes out of my bloglines account, when I click there I usually end up at and idivdual post page. At my site, I try to keep that page pretty clean and content oriented.

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