{"id":186,"date":"2007-10-27T19:51:22","date_gmt":"2007-10-27T19:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=186"},"modified":"2007-10-27T19:51:22","modified_gmt":"2007-10-27T19:51:22","slug":"linkage-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/27\/linkage-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has got to be the most productive I&#8217;ve ever been, 11 &#8211; now 12 &#8211; updates in eight days.<\/p>\n<p>I know it won&#8217;t last, so make the best of it. I&#8217;ll get distracted by work again and things will tail off.<\/p>\n<p>I have actually enjoyed doing all of this writing, it&#8217;s been a rare treat. I will do my very best to write regularly so it&#8217;ll be worth people toddling by&#8230; and I do hope that people stumble across this place and get drawn in by the ramblings of someone who is, quite obviously, an idiot.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nRecently, I added a few links down the right hand side. They&#8217;ve been there in the past, but there weren&#8217;t quite so many. They show that this site is a member of some blog rings, that is, something that gathers <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Blog\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blog\">blogs<\/a> together that have a common theme. The problem with what I write is that there is no actual theme as such and so I had to join rings that were more geographical. So the rings I&#8217;m a member of, and why I chose them, are:<br \/>\n<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Leeds\" rel=\"geolocation\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=53.7997222222,-1.54916666667&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=53.7997222222,-1.54916666667 (Leeds)&amp;t=h\">Leeds<\/a> Blogs &#8211; I live just outside Leeds, and<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>work even further away from it, and although I rarely write about the city itself I do love the place. I&#8217;m proud to be one of the 38 sites there, even though it&#8217;s probably the smallest community I&#8217;m part of.<\/li>\n<li>Blogging Brits &#8211; a more general ring admittedly, and far harder to find <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Statistics\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Statistics\">statistics<\/a> about other sites&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Blogorama &#8211; chosen because I just love the name, and also because then i&#8217;m part of 64,041 other sites &#8211; which may increase the people that read.<\/li>\n<li>Globe Of Blogs &#8211; chosen for it&#8217;s wide variety of other sites, 60,953 others to be precise. I know this site is totally insignificant really but I do love that feeling of being part of something bigger!<\/li>\n<li>BritBlog &#8211; 8,035 blogs are here. What I like about this is that it&#8217;s growing quickly and more sites are joining all the time.<\/li>\n<li>Bloggernity &#8211; a massive directory of sites. I was one of 51 added\u00a0on that alone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finally, there&#8217;s <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"ICBM address\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ICBM_address\">GeoURL<\/a> &#8211; not a ring or directory as such at all, but it lists other sites that are close in locality to where I am. This web thing can seem pretty lonely at times, but knowing there&#8217;s other sites around me gives me a sense of comfort in a way. That&#8217;s hard to explain!<\/p>\n<p>Actually, although I go on about the number of people viewing the site, it doesn&#8217;t bother me too much if this remains a purely personal thing of folly. I would like readers to make comments on posts, I would like it to be seen by more than just a handful of people. I want to have people resond to what I write&#8230; but it&#8217;s not the end of the world if it doesn&#8217;t happen.<\/p>\n<p>The point of this post originally was to talk about the stuff down the side and explain the reasons for the links and how they work. It ended up with a bit of a moan in the end and it&#8217;s not very interesting&#8230; sorry. I shall certainly try harder next time.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, I&#8217;ll go and look for a funny photo now to make up for it!<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?w=1165\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has got to be the most productive I&#8217;ve ever been, 11 &#8211; now 12 &#8211; updates in eight days. I know it won&#8217;t last, so make the best of it. I&#8217;ll get distracted by work again and things will tail off. 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