Duncan Riley

I'm waaay late to the blogging party, but does a "links I like" interface list count? - sergiooo

I still use one. I only rel=nofollow large sites; still share the link love with other bloggers. - Sprague D

sergiooooooo, yes, if its a roll in your sidebar. They're not extinct, but they are rare these days. Sprague, good to see you're still keeping the spirit alive - Duncan Riley

I used to use one, but it seemed as soon as I'd update it, people would go inactive, or I'd have to change it again. (Examples: GeekWhat and Kent Newsome, both who just about fell off the map) Now, I think the Google Reader shared items blog gives a good enough clue as to what I read and find important. - Louis Gray

I found that no one ever clicked on them so I removed it. It was just noise. - Kevin

I'm on the same boat as Kevin. No one ever clicked on them so, I just got rid of it. I have a section for "friends" that include a couple of blogs but that's it. - Candace Holly

I have one on my dembot blog and really believe in it. - Andrew Baron

My blogroll would probably span a few screens.. Anyway blogroll feels slightly 1990s.. Don't you think so? - Winston Teo

Which reminds me, I need to update my blogroll. - Phil Glockner

Still maintain one but update it about once a month as things change - Charlie Anzman

I still use them, but only for close contacts. I like them. - Jim Kukral

I once used them, when Zeldman was that name in the bottom of every blogroll (go figure why ;-) ) and then I stopped blogging - directeur via NoiseRiver

In my opinion, the best use for a blogroll is for a _short_ list of _related_ blogs that the reader can hit in order to get more information on the topic. The "600 blogs I read every day" doesn't seem to me to be the best use of a blogroll. - possible248

I'm trying to convince myself to compile a decent blogroll since 2002:) - Federico Bolsoman

Perhaps it's time to convert the blogroll to a micro-blogroll. Better yet, I would like to display the people I find interesting (at friendfeed) as a widget. - "Czar" DJ Peterman

I recently dropped the blogroll on my blog. No one ever bothered clicking the links. What people do click are the links in my blog posts (yes, it does still happen). The blogs to which I link regularly in my blog posts are a much better barometer of the ones I follow than my blogroll ever was. I really didn't keep the blogroll up to date. - Hutch Carpenter

Hmm, regardless of clicks, SEO's understand that a blogroll link is a vote in Google, or at least indexing priority. If you really like someone, you'll tell Google about their blog by blogrolling them. I never nofollow those. - Brian Carter

Czar: How do you describe your "intersting" people at friendfeed? - directeur via NoiseRiver

I have it on good authority that a new blogroll widget is in the works that will bring blogrolls back - well at least with this crowd. I probably shouldn't say who and I don't know when, but it sounds like it will be dynamic and awesome. So don't count them out just yet - David Knight

I have, in the past, advocated screwing them. http://allied.blogspot.com/200... - jeneane sessum

My blogroll was too long for my sidebar, so I used to have a separate links page. I should clean it up and bring it back. Need to add a TON of social media bloggers I've been introduced to via FriendFeed these past few weeks. :D - Nathaniel Payne

are blogrolls that hump of cheese n the back of your fridge? :) - (jeff)isageek via fftogo

How about this for a theory: The blogroll has been superceded by Twitter and FriendFeed as the easiest way to track and associate oneself with others that are active, interesting and influential in social media - Daniel Young

It's crazy to me how many have dumped them when it's the first step in being social online if you have a blog... good for blogger to blogger luv and also good for pointing your visitors to additional related resources of value, so good all around. - Scott Bannon via twhirl

Duncan, this is so true. I was literally thinking late last night about doing a post on this as I was tidying up my own (relatively new) blog a bit and looking at the standard blogroll links that came with my Wordpress template. I had a quick look at a few fairly well-known blogs and there wasn't a blogroll in sight.. - Matt Hooper

Regarding the value of blogrolls for Google SEO. Check out this thread, about 3/4 the way down, for a comment on that by Adam Lasnik (Google search evangelist): "be careful about making assumptions on how Google does or will weight 'constant' links ;-" (http://friendfeed.com/e/7c7d98...) - Hutch Carpenter

I read blogs mostly in Google Reader. When I'm on a blog, I'm focused on the content rather than the sidebar. I like the blog roll concept, but it would reach a broader audience if it moved to the main column of content. For example, instead of showing a Last.fm widget in my sidebar, I automated a weekly post that shows my top artists from the prior week as a regular blog post. http://bit.ly/4rQvZU - Joe Lazarus

Glad you posted this to Inquisitr as well. For me a blogroll isn't about SEO (nothing about my blog is SEO and my stats prove it!) or even about related blogs but as Duncan said in one of his seesmic videos about this, it's kind of "here are some people I like" thing. I've even gone so far as to meet a few blogroll people in person. So even if the list is long, and even if the content on those blogs is not stuff I can agree with or is not related to mine in any way, most of those links are staying right where they are. - Jim Jannotti via feedalizr

I posted about this on OTB [http://www.outsidethebeltway.c...]. A commenter added a valuable suggestion: "It would seem to me that a tool that extracted the blog links from your posts, continually updating the top X number based on your posts, would be more useful than a blog roll. That would keep the blog roll up to date and reflect the sites you are talking about." - James Joyner

I just responded on your inquisitr thread - Ari Herzog

Mine got so big I figured you should just use Technorati! :-) - Robert Scoble

I only use the Blogroll widget on Wordpress to link to a few close contacts. I certainly don't continuously update my blogroll with the blogs I find interesting, but that'd probably be a better use. I have seen a fair few blogs start doing "Blog of the Week" where they have an image (usually a screenshot of the site) linking to the author's current favourite blog. Could that be considered the step up from the 'traditional' blogroll? - Jamie Clark

I stooped doing that long time ago, i "recommend" blog post individually and never a whole blog, using delicious, and Google Reader shared items. - Mário Pires

I'd really like to add one, but I'm afraid it'd clog my template! - Rubin Sfadj

For me, the Blogroll grew unmanageable. As I never quite liked the concept, I've decided to replaced it with links to the recent interesting things I've read on the 'open' web - simply my del.icio.us bookmarks for now. I would also like to see a widget to publish the recent friendfeed posts that I've 'liked'. - Vidar Andersen via NoiseRiver

the current module supported at blogger shows most recent X that have new posts (up to 10 I think). An okay compromise. - Ryan Gallagher

Since my target audience are small business owners, with limited level of comfort on the internet. I keep the blog rolls simple on my blogs. Called great resources, or my favorite sites, i direct my readers to a few other blogs so they don't get overwhelmed. I also use the blog roll to connect my blogs - Lorraine Ball

I replaced all widgets and rolls with the wordpress friendfeed activity widget / plugin right now. Let's see how it fares. - Vidar Andersen