Self-Serve Blogroll Amnesty By Manila Ryce

Check out some lesser known blogs today. Add new ones to your blogroll, too. I’ve added ROTUS and Clark’s Picks to my blogroll (already have The Largest Minority on my blogroll, as well as a feed to his site). Please check out the blogs on my blogroll, too. ~ Lo

Dandelion Salad

By Manila Ryce
The Largest Minority
Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

Today is Blogroll Amnesty Day, brought to you by Skippy and Jon Swift. Righteous muthafuckas like myself are to link smaller blogs for our readers to check out. However, instead of picking a handful of my own personal favorites to highlight, I thought I’d make this process truly democratic and allow you to bring our attention to an under-appreciated blog.

Okay, my own laziness had something to do with the decision to do it this way, but I’d also rather have a group of loyal readers posting their discoveries and engaging in conversation than just myself dictating which blogs deserve attention and which ones don’t.

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Blogroll Amnesty Day – Updated

by ROTUS

One year ago, this weekend, a tragedy occurred in the blogosphere, or so I am told, by the estimable Jon Swift. On that weekend, while the world was preparing to sit down to a nice quiet Superbowl Sunday, a group of influential bloggers, following the example of one Atrios of Eschaton purged their blogs’ blogrolls of links to the blogs of lesser fry, calling it, in doublespeak “Blogroll Amnesty Day.” Thousands, hundreds or perhaps tens of bloggers found themselves out in the cold, bereft of links, deprived of page rank and most importantly, short of readers.

Why does this matter? To an extremely small fry blogger such as myself it matters quite a lot. Only by gaining the favor of (links from) other, more well known blogs can I find the readership that my three starving little blogs need. Blog readers follow those links to find new blogs to read, obviously, but also Google counts them in order to “rank” the importance of a blog and place it’s posts on page one (or fifty) of a search. To a well known blogger with a few thousand readers a day? Not so much. However there was a guy who said something to the effect of “Whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me.” The more established bloggers should be wiling to give a hand up to those who come after.

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