I've been thinking about starting a linkblog, like Phil Pearson has just done. Two of my favourite daily reads are Anil Dash's Daily Links and Erik Benson's Morale-o-Meter. Both those guys post a daily list of external links, with a 1-2 line comment on each link, which pretty much align with my own interests. Personally I prefer it when daily links are kept separate from the author's main writing blog. Which brings me to my dilemma. Every day I read interesting things on the Web. I want someplace to store those things, because they often seed ideas of my own, which inspire what I write in this weblog.
This continues my owngoing search for the ultimate Web of Ideas application. I see a linkblog as being one source of ideas, gathered from the Web. Other sources of ideas include my own mind, books I read, music I listen to, people I converse with, etc.
But the question is - is it worth me publishing my list of links so that people can subscribe to it? Because my special interest is the two-way web, my list of daily links could actually be a useful resource - especially considering the official Two-Way Web website and the community Write The Web site are no longer being updated (the latter has been taken off the air, which is a pity). So a focussed daily list of links by me, on the topic of the Two-Way Web, could be of value to other people.
Any thoughts?
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Personally, I'm all for things like this. While I'm not nearly as prolific as Anil (or Kottke, who also has a 'linkblog') (and I haven't checked out Erik's), I keep one on my site. My solution for the one-way/two-way dilemma was simply to code it so that it accepted comments and trackback pings, the same as my primary weblog. While it doesn't get nearly as many comments, it will occasionally pick up a few.
Posted by: Michael Hanscom | October 4, 2003 8:05 PM
Thanks for your comment Michael. I also noticed Mark Pilgram has a linkblog now, so it's beginning to gain popularity.
Posted by: Richard MacManus | October 4, 2003 10:59 PM