Today’s assignment: follow five new topics in the Reader and five new blogs.
Imagine that, a topic that follows what came up in the comments Monday. As mentioned in Monday’s post, I’ve been doing this awhile. When Google Reader went POOF I moved all the blogs I followed over to WordPress’ Reader. And that was the last time I did any purging or organizing.
Before I add more I needed to do a Spring – Winter…? – cleaning. Maria (the overachiever!) already knocked this out. Her blog roll was huge, and I mean mind-boggling huge. If she can work through that list I can work though mine. Right?
Following her lead:
- If they hadn’t blogged in the last year or more, their blogs were deleted. The only exception were a few of the Tarot sites that are still great resources.
- Next, I checked to see if the blog topics were still of interest. If not, I had to show some tough love and cut them.
- If the blog was excessively promo (theirs or for others), bye-bye. I don’t have a lot of time to read blogs, even less to stop by and comment, so skipped the promos anyway. This also applied to the excessive blog hop blogs.
- Finally, and this was hard given my own stalker tendencies, if the blogger never visited my blog or responded to comments on their blog, I let them go.
I spent more time then I allotted but I think it is done. D.O.N.E. There are a few blogs I was on the fence about so will revisit them next quarter. As I’m looking to improve my relationship with the blogs remaining on my blog roll, I haven’t followed any new blogs. I did visit and comment on a couple of blogs I saw under the Blogging 101 tag last night and I do like the topic feature of the WordPress Reader. It’s kinda like a Twitter hashtag.
I also checked all the links in the side bar while I was at it. Amazing how freeing a good cleaning is.
Kick in the arse…check.
When was the last time you cleaned your blog roll/checked links?
Raelyn Barclay 
Last time I cleaned my blog roll? Uh….
LOL, exactly Angela.
Overachiever, moi? Ha! It was just something to do while the blogosphere was relatively quiet.
I do want to add some blogs to expand my social group beyond writers and readers. I stalk a lot of homesteading blogs, but most don’t seem big on doing anything but posting. We’ll see.
Aw, but while the blogoshere was relatively quiet I was running around like one of your chickens you just dispatched for the pot.
I’m in the same boat, Maria, in that the writerly blogs outweigh pretty much everything else. I plan to use the topic/tag feature to expand my reading and, hopefully, my online friends. If only that time thing wasn’t so elusive…
That depends. The last time I cleaned my blog reader, or the list on the side of my blog? The former I keep nicely up-to-date. The latter… well, I couldn’t even tell you if it still exists on my blog, so I guess that answers that question.
LOL.
My blog roll has moved to the bottom with the new theme. As much as I like sharing the love and pointing people toward blogs I enjoy it takes away from the clean lines of the theme. I may create a blog roll page instead. Hmm…
Thanks for making me think, I think. LOL. Glad you stopped by.