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Why Scott doesn’t read your blog

Scott: Why I’m Not Reading Your Blog and Why Others May Not Be Also. Scott likes text he can resize and a decent update frequency. Tony Bowden responds that update frequency is no longer an issue for him ever since he switched to using a blog roll that shows him when the blogs listed were last updated. The same is true for me—my blo.gs powered blog roll has slashed the amount of time I spend keeping up with other people’s blogs as I only visit them when there’s something new to read.

Posted 17th August 2002 at 2:38 pm

This is Why Scott doesn’t read your blog by Simon Willison, posted on 17th August 2002.

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  1. It's incredibly useful, innit? Especially since I adopted your ?lastUpdated hack, which means that in combination with a style on a.blogroll:visited, I can see at a glance which blogs I've visited. It might be nice if everyone using that hack adopted the same method, so visited links shared between blogrolls show up as visited. The problem with standards is that there are so many of them ;)

    sil - 17th August 2002 14:04 - #

  2. Ooh that's a good idea. I've had second thoughts about the lastUpdated hack recently after I saw a new weblog crawling / directory site that was listing everything on my blogroll a dozen or more times thanks to the hack, but it is incredibly useful. I'll switch to using your scheme - my one is increasingly showing new links as visited thanks to the update occurring at the same time of day as a previous update.

    Simon - 17th August 2002 14:14 - #

  3. I had trouble posting immediately after the hack was introduced, so I wasn't able to post this URL http://w3future.com/weblog/stories/2002/05/04/uris ForDynamicPages.html which argues that you can use the '#' sign affixed with an argument to bookmark the current state of a framed page. It occured to me that this may be a valid solution for blogrolling, too. I think the '#' sign may be more appropriate than using the '?', which is a legacy of my perl obsession.

    Micah - 18th August 2002 05:53 - #

  4. That sounds sensible - I'm sure I considered that before, I can't remember why I didn't go with it now :( I'll have a mess around and see if that works.

    Simon - 18th August 2002 09:47 - #

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