When I first started reading blogs, blogrolls made intuitive sense tome. You had to keep track of the URLs of the blogs you read somehow, andmaking your reading list public was the friendly thing to do. This viewwas so clear to me that at one point I considered writing a techblogentry about how I didn't have a blogroll because I used differentmethods to keep track of my various blog reading.

(Possibly I would have talked about how the rise of feed readers wouldaffect blogrolls. There