What is "the blogroll"? Your links out..

The other thing people in the blogging world do is link to each other. People wanted to know how they read and then link to each other’s blogs. Of course there’s always a million ways to do any one thing, isn’t there!

You could:

  • subscribe via an RSS reader (eg google reader) – more complicated.
  • add a “friend connection” (via google friend connect) – easy enough.
  • add links in your page via the Layout > Add a Gadget tool – direct on the page.

We went for the 3rd option, “add a Gadget”.. dived in and tried to find one. i chose “Link List”, while Soheir chose “Blog list”. Soheir made the better choice, as her gadget draws in the latest post from each blog, as well as links to the sites. You can see the difference between the two down the right hand side of this blog.

Sue Waters has an explanation of her “blogroll” over at her site. (Sue is a prominent edublogger from WA, and an aquaculture tech educator.)

Thanks for reading,
Regards, michael

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