XFN

Blogroll + XFN

My sidebar has pointers to the weblogs that I read fairly regularly. (If you read the RSS version of this site, you may continue not paying attention to anything that has to do with the HTML version.) Every now and then, I like going to people's websites and checking out what they either like now or liked at the time they added the link. I say "liked at the time" because many people don't seem to update their sidebar at all, to weed out the sites that suck and to add sites that rule. Synchronizing the sidebar with my blogroll data used to be a manual process, but now thanks to a cron job or two—if the phrase "cron job" confuses you or better yet, makes you laugh, congratulations, you are part of the majority—it should update every day early in the morning to reflect any changes I make. If you can find any use for it, my 'blogroll' is available in XML format. If you clicked that link and saw what doesn't not look like a regular page and that confused you, again, you are part of the majority. (For some reason, the geeks who thought up how those pages look think that your user experience should not be confusion-free. Those geeks are, of course, wrong.)

My blogroll contains XFN info. That means that in the links, I've put a few bits of information indicating my relationship to the person behind the site. You can see a listing of my relationships at rubhub.com. If you must call me on any of that, I'd appreciate a discreet message to that effect. If you're not listed as a friend, it's possible that I'm not linking to you (I have my reasons, though chances are I read your site on a regular basis), that I don't consider you a friend, or I'm a total jackass and forgot how much you mean to me. If you're listed as "crush", please don't take it too seriously. (And if you're not the person listed, you promise you won't tell them, right?) If you don't have "met" listed with your site, I want to meet you. If you have "muse" listed with your site, I'm not really sure why, but it felt right.

In other news, the sidebar again links to the page explaining this weblog's name.

My rubhub.com XFN relationship listing
Not currently up to date.
rubhub.com, an XFN Relationship Lookup Engine
Experimenting with XFN again. Yeah, yeah, I should be using FOAF. But XFN is easy.