...is add my blog roll back to my blog. Here's the deal:Last year, I completely deleted it, transferred everything to Google Reader, and became addicted. Seriously addicted. I probably added like 100 new blogs, all with great people and amazing ideas.
But you lose all the personal touches of a blog when all you do is read them in the sterile, boring view of Google Reader. (sorry, GR!!) We all carefully design our blogs and they represent us, and I felt like I was "losing touch" with people that probably have no clue who I am, but it still bothered me. It's so much harder to comment and I found myself on the outside looking in and rarely participating. I started getting people mixed up and not even really realizing who was posting what because I wasn't associating it with their actual blog, the design, the picture of their smiling face in the sidebar...
So, I added everyone to my blog roll. Yes, all 170-something of them. Only the 25 most recent posts will show, but I'm still reading every one of them. And I will try to pare it down as the year goes on...you know, the whole "all things in moderation" deal.
Time to do something with fabric now....I gotta get a project ready to take to CO with me ; )
2 comments:
I totally know what you mean - - I don't think I could keep up with all the blogs I want to read without google reader and would miss some posts, which I hate . . I'm in the 'seriously addicted phase of life' but am trying to click out and comment and connect as much as I can, since I think that's important.
Going to add you too!
- Donna (from KindredCrafters) ...my signature doesn't link back to our blog - if I was more techy I would fix it!!
I read through Google reader but I always click the post so I visit the blog itself to make a comment. That helps me a lot!
I learn so much from reading blogs!
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