Link posts – end of the line?
I’ve been thinking about the content I publish on my blog of late. Personally, I think I’ve let it get a bit messy, and have been working on cleaning it up a bit and thinking of new layouts and such. Currently, I’ve not planned an overhaul of the entire site, but that may happen in 2008 – we’ll see.
Recently though, I’ve started to dislike my “links” post that I try to keep updated every day. It’s hard to keep up, and be selective, sharing quality links in these posts. They’re partially automated, coming directly from my del.icio.us bookmarks. However, del.icio.us is fed by ClipMarks, after careful screening through my Google Reader’s Shared Items.
For the past year, I’ve maintained a Google Reader Shared Items blog. In early autumn 2007 I created a Lifestream that aggregated all my online postings of multiple types of media into one place. Two weeks ago, I discovered FriendFeed which does the same thing, but also brings social interaction to the shared content as well.
With these aggregated or interactive shared streams, I wonder if there is any real point of posting a “links” post every day (or trying to anyway). I’d love to have your thoughts. While it does take a bit of extra effort on my part, it may be of greater value to you… I don’t know, but I’d like to find out.
Share your thoughts in the comments. Do you find value in the “links” posts that I share, or do you find more and better links in things like FriendFeed, Plaxo Pulse, Google Reader Shared Items, or a Lifestream?
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Pingback by Where’s the context | WinExtra [...] Rick Mahn has a good post today about link posts – you know those posts that show up in your reader that consist of nothing but links with maybe a few obligatory words that you are suppose to use to decipher what the link is all about. [...]
Comment by Rick Mahn Thanks for the feedback Chris! I’m seriously thinking of dropping them – in fact, I’ll not be posting another unless I get some crazy-enormous requests for them.
Awhile back, I thought it would be a great way to share things that I thought were interesting, and that’s been done much better by all sorts of services. Nice to see I’m not out of touch on this – maybe I was for keeping them so long?
Regards,
Rick
Comment by Joanna Young Rick, I never click from a list of links either. Just not enough to get my interest going. Not just yours – it’s anywhere!
I’d follow a link you mentioned in Twitter, and I’ll explore some from StumbleUpon, based on a friend’s recommendation. I haven’t tried the other services yet.
Actually now I think about it I’m mainly going new places from Twitter, because they just come one at a time rather than all in a bundle which can be too much, esp if you’re already in the middle of reading a whole lot of feeds.
Joanna
Comment by Todd Jordan Drop the link posts and let them flow through other means. Recruit more of us to get into shared bookmarking.
Give you more time and energy to devote to regular blog posts.
Personally I don’t pay much attention to lists of links…. that may just be me mind you.
I prefer hearing the story behind them.
It’s good to question these things.