Inspired by @fsvo, I’ve added a “Blogroll” tab to the top of these blog pages. Blogrolls were a popular late 1990s/early 2000s way to recommend content. The idea is that you include a list of links to other blogs on your own blog, so that people can discover new, related content. It’s basically low-tech relevance recommendations.

These seem to have fallen out of favor. But I’d like to suggest that we need to actively encourage alternate means of content discovery. Web search isn’t great these days, and neither are LLMs. Hierarchical directories like Yahoo and DMOZ are long gone, and (in my opinion) were never that helpful in the first place. But it useful to have a diversity of ways to find content. It precludes capture by one or a handful of companies. It may be low tech, and very smol web, but it’s valuable.

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