If I end up with any more RSS-subscribed content on this site, I'm going to get to the point where I don't actually have to write anything anymore. I've switched the right-hand column list of "other reading" over to a customized feed from Blogrolling.Com. Sure, all of the content there is mine (unlike the Blogdex section above it, where all of the content is, well, everyone's.)
The list of top blogs right now on Blogrolling is a little depressing. I like Lockergnome-writer Chris Pirillo as much as anyone, but I'm not sure I'm thrilled that he's the biggest common link between the cultural context of 900-odd bloggers participating in that system. Running down the top 5-10 from there isn't much of a thrill either.
Thanks (again) to Merlin Mann at kungfugrippe for this tidbit of sidebar goodness... ended up on his site by accident while trying to fix a spam problem, via Ben Trott's (maker of Moveable Type) weblog. These are narrow circles we travel in. I'm sure if I'd made a left turn, I would have ended up in the somewhat more peace-loving neighborhood near the intersection of Kottke and Megnut streets.
If I steal anything more from Merlin, I'm going to have to start just mirroring his web site. The only thing that keeps me from "liberating" his new 3-column layout is a general lack of time and unwillingness to wade around in CSS at the moment.
Steal anything you like, man. It's what I do.
;-)
Anyone else notice that blogrolling doesn't seem to implement any of their ordering preferences (alpha, recent, etc) for the RSS feed? I had to add an alphabetical sort on my side. That kind of sucks... they're throwing a lot of meta-data in the garbage when they could send it along with the feed, like the relatively popularity of the links, and the time they were last updated.