With all of the information, and really good information, that’s available, sometimes staying on top of them all can be a daunting task. If you check many people’s blogs on places like WordPress, you’ll see that they often include Blogrolls. A blogroll is really just a listing of other blogs that you indicate to the world that you read on a regular basis. Through the concept of blogrolling, you add to the concept of the web by easily webbing from blog to blog.
In reality, a lot of these people are lying! They don’t read all those blogs. It’s a status symbol to say that you have so and so’s blog on your blogroll so that visitors to your blog think, wow, this person is really connected. After all, there are only so many hours in the day. You can’t spend them all reading blogs, can you?
Who says that you have to READ blogs? Maybe you could just LISTEN to them instead!
Well, let’s analyse the part of the day that you’re not reading blogs. It could be when you’re driving, our for a little exercise, or in an airplane, or just sitting in a chair reading. Get yourself an account on Blogbard. This service will read blogs to you. Even better, rather than doing it online, download the blog post to your iPod and listen to it when you can. What a great concept. You now have your own personal blogging radio station. You may have to upgrade your car to get a radio with an audio jack but it’s a small price to pay!
It’s not going to replace your favourite podcasts as the voice is computer generated and you don’t have the same inflections that a regular recording would have but you have the content.
Now, you can say with confidence, I do pay attention to the blogs in my blogroll. Sometimes I read them; sometimes I listen to them.
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