Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
If my math is right, we have 503 sidebar resources now, and that does not include the sister sites that are listed under the Webloggin and Blogs For Palin containers.
It probably does include a few dead sites that, once upon a time, titillated me sometime in the last four years or so. Not much we can do about that.
That includes 442 bronze blogs, which is the emblem we use to represent, for lack of a better phrase, “some guy with a blog.” Some guy whose politics are kinda-sorta in line with ours. If you’re one of the 20 turquoise blogs that means you’re a left-wing maggot-infested hippie of some kind…but we made up our mind we kind of like you anyway, because unlike most liberal hippies you’ve been found to have an occasional original thought in your dreadlocked head.
A blog cannot be silver unless it is the culmination of some collaborative effort. To be one of our 32 silver blogs, it is not enough to just write some stuff, you have to host something. You have to have some kind of panel of contributors, and you have to have some criteria, written or not, about the writers that qualify to participate in your panel.
And the seven blogs we recognize as gold, are household names. You walk up to someone who doesn’t know jack about blogs, and say “hey I read something in a blog” and that person might say “Oh, you mean like (insert name of blog here)?” If you pass that test, you might be gold.
Which leaves just two platinums. Platinum means I’m addicted and have been addicted for years. Platinum means Boortz and FARK, just those two.
Now here’s the thing.
Somewhere around the beginning of the year, I lost the sidebar. I have been keeping it in version control, but I hadn’t done a “commit” on my version control archive since several weeks before Christmas. Since then, I’ve been trying to figure out who I lost, and get their links all restored to the blog roll.
Also, we have an unofficial, unwritten policy that if someone links to us, we link to them — unless they’re being dicks, which is something that hasn’t happened for a lot of years. And lately we keep on finding some poor soul who’s been faithfully linking to us, for years maybe, without us linking back. We catch it and catch it and catch it some more…think after you take a load in the ass with a shotgun, and for years afterward you’re digging pellets from back there and after awhile you just resign yourself to the fact that your ass has pellets in it and you’ll never get them all. That’s where we’ve been. Except we appreciate it more than digging lead pellets out of our ass. But the digging continues. It’s getting tiresome. We appreciate the attention, but we don’t appreciate catching ourselves denying the same to others.
So we also have a policy not to give shout-outs. We don’t want to fall off that brink of running a blog just to put up passive-aggressive “Am I The Only One Who” posts. So we don’t SNUL.
Our policies are in conflict with each other.
The shout-out must proceed.
So give me a shout if you’re linking to us, and we’re not linking back. We are sufficiently frustrated now we’re ready to admit we need the guidance. Or, if you’re not linking yet and you would like to link.
And you can comment too. If you think one of our links is a left-wing pinhead and I failed to realize it at the time I categorized whoever it is…or if you find one that’s dead. One that regularly puts up pictures of female body parts, and we don’t have our courteous little NSFW tag by their link. We’d like to know about that before anything else. It’s kinda important…
So go to town. Yes, we’re soliciting input. Say hi, say “here’s my blog,” whack us in the back of the head…criticize our friends…whatever. Let’s hear it.
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It’s rare that I solicit links from people. I figure that if they want to link to me, it’s fine. If not, that’s okay, too. However, since you asked, I will mention that you’re in my sidebar.
- Physics Geek | 02/18/2010 @ 06:42Okay, gotcha. Thanks.
- mkfreeberg | 02/18/2010 @ 06:55Oh man, Morgan, I just went through many of your links (got me a new computer and was looking for some lost fav’s), and noticed a few that you probably should take down.
Maybe if I find sometime again I’ll forward them.
- tim | 02/18/2010 @ 14:34