Whenever I move up the food chain in The
Truth Laid Bear Ecosystem, I check the incoming links to see who’s linking me.
Doing so I found a complimentary post at extreme
Catholic. Apparently I’m funny. Groovy 🙂
Also found in that post is a link to a cool aggregator of sorts for St. Blog’s sites
(which is how he found me). I wouldn’t have found him if he hadn’t found me.
Due to my lengthy inability to post, I’ve fallen quite behind on current events.
I’m not going to try to cover everything I missed, though. Other people have done
that. Here are the links to the stories I would have blogged.
This post got me thinking and got me to expand my blogroll about beyond the echo
chamber. On a side note, I’m thinking of creating a separate roll for blogs that
don’t ping the right server(s) for Blogrolling to alert me to updates. It’s a real
drag not knowing who’s fresh and who’s not.
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Diversified
Homogenity: A Cure for the Stale Blogroll
Click through some people’s blogrolls and you’d get the impression that the blogosphere
was comprised of nothing but middle-class, white American males whose only interest
in life is discussing politics. These bloggers get trapped within an echo chamber,
reading post after post that says the same things they think in the same way they
would have said it themselves. The links in their blogrolls could simply be replaced
with ditto marks and it wouldn’t affect them at all.
America has more than its fair share of problems and failings, but we have more freedoms than Europeans, as evidenced by this article.
Report: Sites Missing From Google
By ANICK JESDANUN
"What you get through Google's powerful and popular search engines may depend on where you live."
"A report Thursday from Harvard Law School found at least 100 sites missing from search results when accessing Google sites meant for French and German users."
"Most of the missing sites are ones that deny the Holocaust or promote white supremacy. France and Germany have strict laws banning hate speech, while the United States favors freedom of expression even for unpopular viewpoints."
"The sites themselves were not blocked. But the effect is the same when users cannot find them, said Danny Sullivan, editor of SearchEngineWatch.com."