WillWybrow.com

Some of my friends keep their own blog. I know I love mine more than anything else in the world. It’s a memory, a possession, a creative outlet, a home and a refuge, all in one place. There’s courage to be found in the rigid face of the upstanding green-flecked columns, wisdom to be sought from the words therein and solace to be found within the back-end and the archives that can’t be rivalled.

I don’t know if any of my friends feel like that about their blogs (I suspect they do not), but I know that everyone likes to know that they are being read.

I don’t use newsfeed software. I never really got into that whole system. But that’s not to say I don’t appreciate it when it’s convenient. That’s why, thanks to my iGoogle page, I have been able to add a “Blogs” tab, where I’ve put boxes from all the blogs that I read regularly, check occasionally (because they don’t get updated very often) and used to check (because they no longer are updated, but I have to be there in case someone starts up again). I’ve managed to put them in approximate order of activity, trying to take into account recency and volume of activity, using “Wybrow’s Algorithm” (I just guessed, and it “feels about right”), and I am definitely going to keep on top of it (unlike what I tried to get going with my feed list page on this website) with new additions from friends, reading everything as it’s published. I check my iGoogle page nearly every day (since there are some tech-oriented newsfeeds on there where I can read about Steve fucking Ballmer whenever I feel like it), so I will always be informed.

I would like to share it with everyone, though… to let others know the other folk who live online nearby. Maybe I will make a “planet” feed aggregator on a new site. Planet Will - incorporating both my and my friends’ posts. Maybe.

Until then; get fucking updating, everyone!