SL Blog circle?

Anyone reckon it's doable to create a little SL blogger's circle? Like.. an image we can put on our blogs that when clicked takes you to another (recently updated) blog with SL content?

That would be great! Keeping track of the updated blogs is tricky

Would be handy if someone clever is bored!

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It is if they don't have RSS feeds
I don't have the technical skills to set up a webring but I think it's a nice idea.

Yeah... webring... it all comes around... right now I use BLOGLINES.COM to aggregate SL blogs. It works heartily!

It's also recommended for this wiki entry to be updated accordingly:

http://secondlife.com/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Blogs

I use sage for firefox, I guess I should sign more people up. I think it would be nice for the casual reader tho

I should look more into Sage -- I use IE primarily but do have Firefox on here as an alternate.

Personally I find it more convenient to use an aggregator (I use Feedreader, and bloglines.com offers an online one), but this put aside, the idea is nice, if only to link to blogs that perhaps aren't in our lil' lists yet

Webrings are kind of neat. I've used them a lot in the past.

Here...I set one of for "Second Life Blogs"

http://ringsurf.com/netring?action=info&ring=secondlife

Try joining it and you'll see how it works (the "Join" link is at the top of the page).

Webrings are a little kludgey...you have to paste HTML code on your main blog page for them to work, and if people mess with the code on their own page then the whole thing breaks down. But if people like this, I'd be happy to manage this for everyone (and to make the ring page spiffier).

Nudging this up one last time to see if anyone is still interested in this.

I'll sign up mate. Unless it's rubbish

...looks ok, but i am not good at editing php. Signed up but it won't appear on my site unless someone edits my page for me

Well, I joined... Now I'm awaiting some sort of confirmation...?

OK, we've got two members added. Woop!

FYI, I've added my blog sites Live2Give and Brigadoon to this ring. It's growing...one site at a time.

http://ringsurf.com/netring?action=info&ring=secondlife

OK - I added the blog for the Community team (Be the Change) but I can't figure out where to paste the ring code. Help?!

I added my own blog to the ring, now I just hope that the place I pasted the code in is appropriate

As long as the ring code is visible on your main page, it's cool. That way people can keep always find it, and will use it to jump to other sites in the ring.

For standard blogs, I think the best place for the Ring Code is in the Sidebar.

Using Typepad, click on the Design Tab...then click on "List Templates in this Set"....then edit the "Sidebar Template." Just toss the HTML code at the very end of the Sidebar Template, and the Ring code will appear at the bottom of the sidebar. Of course you can edit the HTML a bit to tighten up the formatting if you wish.

I've added everyone who has joined, so now we're up to 6 blogs. Woop! Be sure to check out the STATS page on the ring, and you can see just how much traffic you are getting from other sites in the ring.

http://ringsurf.com/netring?action=info&ring=secondlife

Added now

I signed up

Am waiting for approval

Just approved you. And a couple other sites as well.

We're up to 8 sites in the ring now. If we get every SL blog site out there in the ring, we'll have a fantastic resource!

While I have nothing against web-rings, I really do feel that their day is almost done. I personally like web communities better myself: A single site that allows open communication and thought between people.

Nowdays it's simple enough for me to build a site with enough bandwidth and options to make nearly everybody happy, why make users play hopscotch across the net?

Mind you, that's MY OPINION, and not to be mistaken for fact or law...

I think people will always have their own websites...their own discrete blogs running on different servers all over the place. Human nature is such that people like to go out and "do their own thing" on their own private piece of cyberspace.

Given that fact, using something like a web ring is a good way to at least link the common threads together.

Good points, all. I just think that most sites nowdays can offer almost everyone 'their own thing'...

I'm running a personal site with options for gallerys, forums, games, blah blah blah... Adding a wiki or sectioning off a forum for user blogs wouldn't be hard either...

I'm just saying that grouping likly things together in one site makes everything easier to find...

But you're right, people like to do things on their own. A territorial thing, I guess...

I totally agree with your thoughts about this, Foolish. Which is why, rather than "web rings," I'd love to see something like this take shape in SL.

I don't see the infrastructure to do it yet, and I don't personally have the programming resources to implement it (some of it would most likely require adding code features to the SL client). Which is why I'm offering the web ring at the moment. But maybe in time we'll see such a centralized system.

^ what he said.

I currently use sage to monitor a pile of blogs, but if you are random newby who surfs on in to a blog (or someone who lands from Google) then you might not know about the other blogs and the ring is a great way to keep everyone linked

Hiya Huns. You just need to sign up for the ring here. That way you can define your own keywords (for searching) and describe your blog however you like....and you'll get the HTML code you need to add to your blog site.

Thanks for signing up! Up to 9 sites now.