What's a Blogroll?

You may have noticed the expanding list of links on this page called the "Blogroll." Maybe you've even wondered what that's all about. ;)

A blogroll is simply a list of blogs or news feeds that a person reads regularly or subscribes to. You can usually learn a lot about that person's interests and passions by perusing the blogs linked in their blogroll.

Currently I've got nearly 50 blogs "rolled"... do I really read them all? Yep. I use a handy tool called Bloglines to aggregate them for me. Basically, every time a new post is made to one of my watched blogs, I get a little notification on my desktop. When I go to Bloglines, I can see all of the new posts to all of my blogs at the same time - all in one web page. It sucks them all in like a giant vacuum cleaner, and presents only the new stuff to me, so that I don't have to constantly surf from one blog to the next, looking for new stuff.

A lot of times I skim through the entries, only reading the stuff that looks the most interesting. But all of these blogs are interesting enough to me to make it on my "watch list." I would recommend them to you, too, if you're looking for some interesting reading.