On Why I Have No Blogroll...

Blogger rolled out a new feature for layouts that, if you're a Blogger user, you might know about. Basically, instead of listing a bunch of links on a sidebar, it allows us to create a feed for blogs. I've been experimenting for the past 20 minutes or so, but there are some glitches, of course.

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Anonymous said…

I know you can share items from Google Reader into any blog regardless of whether or not it's Blogger (although it makes it really easy to do for Blogger). I don't have a blogroll either but have my shared items in my sidebar. Whenever I share an item, it shows up. I imagine that this new feature would be along the same lines as sharing. I do know that you can create a blogroll as well from Google Reader. Good luck figuring it out.

June 6, 2008 at 9:24 PM

Eva said…

Very interesting! Glad Wordpress doesn't have this feature: I have too many blogs in my reader, so if I added feeds to them all, it'd just be crazy!!

June 6, 2008 at 11:43 PM

Literary Feline said…

I hadn't yet heard of this feature. I'll have to look into it. I love my scrolling blogroll and would be hesitant to change it, but you never know.

June 7, 2008 at 2:06 AM

Anonymous said…

Hey, I see you got it working. That's pretty cool. I see my last post in your sidebar.

June 14, 2008 at 12:46 AM

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