Not quite done with everything, so now's the time to whine about how your link has been mislabeled and no one understands your unique position in the universe.

I'm under "Letters"? What's up with that? I hate reading. I suppose I shouldn't complain - literary blogging seems a lot more popular than the art kind - but still.

Hey, dude, you've got me under "Culture." I think we're working toward mutually assured reclassifying.

I see your point. Though in my defense, when I organized my links months ago, that was a defensible choice.

The best advice I can give anyone concerned with their position on blogrolls is this: name your site something beginning with "A". Not all lists are alphabetic, but many if not most are. And mybloglog has confirmed to me what I always suspected: the links at the top get the most hits.

Fair enough. I'm using "Letters" in an unjustifiably loose way anyhow, so that I don't have to make a bunch of more appropriate categories. Suffice it to say, everybody, that Miguel shines from the lackluster middle of the alphabet.

Per your observation—I almost never look at sidebars unless they're extremely tidy, maybe 20 blogs or fewer. Mostly because larger blogrolls tend to include the same blogs, though there's probably also an anoverabundance of choice effect at hand. I think it's probably more useful to others as the blogs on the roll become fewer (i.e., more distinguished) even while it becomes less useful to me (i.e., fewer placeholders for me to click).

I'm also fond of the "subvert the dominant link hierarchy" effort. No links to Josh Marshall (or Daily Kos, or whatnot); everybody reads them, so those links only clutter the sidebar, and it's time to give some new bloggers some love.

You just need to add border="0" to your tag. That should make the redness disappear.

That'd be the <img> tag.

what Dan said. Alternately, you can add a new style that looks like this:

.side a img{
border-width: 0px;
}

that ought to work. if it doesn't, drop the "a "

Thanks, that did the trick. You guys ought to get paid for this stuff.

Per your observation—I almost never look at sidebars unless they're extremely tidy, maybe 20 blogs or fewer.

Thanks for the compliment. I've seen a lot of different opinions on this topic lately. I tend to favor a more expansive list of links, although I worry about how to make them more legible or inviting. I do have a small group of links to the big blogs, mostly for my own use if nothing else. I have considered getting rid of them for the reasons you describe, but de-linking always seems like a statement, when when those involved aren't aware of the link in the first place. And I like to think I crossed paths with Marshall at Brown back in the day.

I do tend to use sidebar links more than a lot of people do, or so it seems from the discussions I've seen. I think one thing that might help enliven them for those who don't would be if people had better (more interesting or descriptive) blog names. I'm much less likely to click on an unknown individual's name, nonsense term or a simply boring title, than I am on something that sounds good.

Don't know if you know this, but the new sidebar isn't showing up in the nidividual archives. I clicked over to the individual post through my rss reader and nothing was changed. Hit the main page and it's all different...

Ezra: Thanks—I haven't ported the changes over to the archive pages yet, but I'll do that later today. Weird that it doesn't show up in the RSS feeder, though.

I don't play hockey, but it's all good.

BTW, The Poor Man's URL ends with .net

Ah... I went to "hat trick" but alas... just another figure of speech.

I'm still seeing the red border around Beck on Firefox.

Rob: Press control + F5. It's some sort of mondo-refresh. Ought to do the trick.

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