Iconoclast Blast

I've found the best source of links is other blogger's "blogrolls." It's incestuous as hell, but it doesn't end up being monotonous. There is great diversity in the blogosphere. I've garnered the links on my site by using an RSS/RDF aggregator, and hitting the link trail. (That's how I know when your blogs change, BTW.)

The aggregator I use is NewsMonster (http://www.newsmonster.org). It's a java extension for Mozilla, and still in development. It was an enormous pain in the ass to set up, and it sometimes fails in unfriendly ways, but when it works, it is sweet. The integration with Mozilla is very, very useful. You work in the browser, and mail is just a click away. (I use Evolution as muy main mail client, but switch to Mozilla mail when I'm blogging. This works because I have my own IMAP server.)

Anyhow, just follow links on other blogs and when you find one you like, add it. Then see what they link to. Another thing I've done to my MT is to change the main index template to produce a .php file. Then for any content that's not managed by MT, I just do:

<?php
    include("coolstuff.inc");
?>

Which makes maintaining my list of links pretty easy. Another approach is to use the service at http://blogrolling.com. You maintain your links there with easy tools that let you add a link by browsing to it and clicking a bookmarklet with JS code in it. You add the blogroll to your site by adding some JS to your index template. I decided not to do that because they put a little ad at the bottom of the list. It's not that I don't think they provide a useful service, but that I can do it so easily myself.

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with!

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