What’s a Blogroll?

What’s a Blogroll? 13 April, 2007

Posted by danielfogg in Blogosphere, Crash Course, General.
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A blogroll is a collection of links to other websites, typically blogs, which are usually found in the side collumn of a blog. The blogroll usually shows two things; the blogs or websites which the blogger (person writing the blog: me) will visit and read on a regular basis, secondly the blogroll represents a list of individuals and opinions that the blogger wants to associate him/herself with, due to their ideas, style, argument strength or popularity.

It’s important to note the difference between a blogroll and normal website links. The Register is a webiste which I read regularly, and share the opinions of, and hence in my blogroll, as is Bill Thompson’s blog. The BritishCouncil.org site is in my links because I work for the British Council, it is an organisation I am obviously affiliated with, and I would like visitors to the site to check it out. Unsurprisingly however, I don’t read the BritishCouncil.org website regularly, and hence it is not in my blogroll.

So that’s what a blogroll is!

For a more comprehensive example of a blogroll, check out the long list on Unspeak.net (down the bottom of the right hand collumn).