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Same here, only with bloggers that I truly connect with, will I check out who they recommend. Often that doesn't even happen via a blogroll, but through discussion - in comments or via e-mail and chat.

I've removed my blogroll altogether, and only mention five of my friends on my about page.

For me that varies a lot, depending on if I'm having time to do it or not, how the blog is, if I'm searching for new interesting blogs and so on.

I do think that they still fill some purpose. I have had a lot of my visitor coming through blogrolls.

It's up to your personal taste if you should have it on your blog or not.

It really depends on the blog - if I really connect to them and I'm bored I might surf the blogroll a bit. Like Napfisk I get most of my new blogs through links in the comments and recommendations in posts from people I trust.

My own 'blog-roll' sits on a separate links page so if you want it it's there, but it doesn't clutter up the front page for the majority.

Sometimes I take a peek and other times I just won't. There has to be something there for me to look. Maybe the person commented on my blog and I'd like to peek at who they read. Or maybe it's a simple interest. But I don't always look.

I'm with you Cas. I have my blogroll on a separate links page to try and keep my sidebar clean and tidy.

Speaking of blogrolls, I have a few sites I want to add... off I go...

Yeah. I'm bad at updating mine. I usually do it when I'm bored at work. Nice, eh?

A bit on a 'side note' perhaps, but I suppose there must be better tools by now for sharing the blogs and sites you like to read, no?

I tried using Google Notes for that once, but that didn't work, and now there's Google Reader's shared feeds. Share a post and it pops up in your public list.

Any other ideas how we could make this blogroll sharing thing a bit more modern and dynamic perhaps (or is that a new note?)

My blogroll is used by my visitors a bit because I can see MyBlogLog statistics (for example my Lifehacker link got 2 clicks the other day).

Still, blogrolls are useful just to please your blog friends whose PR and Technorati rank goes up as a result :)

I very rarely read blogrolls. On my own site, I don't have one. Instead, if I'm reading someone and I like them, I write about something they said and encourage others to do so as well.

If you're credible, then some of your credibility translates to your blogroll too.

i like to check out blogrolls for bloggers i connect with.
a lot of the times i find useful strategies and related info, if they've used their blogroll well.

I'm in the same boat as most of you. I very rarely even look at blogrolls. If I checked out every blogroll on every blog I visited, that's all I'd ever get done. I'll check out a blogroll if I really, really enjoy a blog, but that's about it. Blogrolls (and sidebars in general, to an extent) have kind of become a blindspot for me. I don't even see them any more.

To me, it depends what blog i'm on in the first place, whether I know the person or not, or if the blog interests me. If the blog interests me, then I might look at a few Blogroll links, sometimes out of boredom. If I know the person really well, then i'm quite likely to check a few links out, probably because I might know the people they link to (or might have just seem them around somewhere, like in comments). It varies.

One thing which does attract me to check out a link is if the blog owner leaves a description on it, especially if it's something funny. That way, i'm more likely to notice something interesting.

I don't usually check out blogrolls, but I personally hate it when people have fifty thousand listed because I then don't even want to look at even one of them.

I am thinking of having a top five for the year though. The blogs that I frequently read would go on that and then next year, I could just do five new ones (unless I stuck with the same people).

I am probably going to do a list on the first of January.

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I find them interesting if they are relevant and not just a list of a million blogs

I still look.

I still read other people's blogrolls from time to time especially blogs that have very few blogs on their blogrolls rather than ones that machine gun their sidebar with links.

That's why I keep my blogrolls seperate. The ones I actually bother to read on a daily basis, I would keep it on my sidebar (which is only a small handful). The ones that I have collected over the years, I keep it updated (to remove the old un-updated ones and put them in categories) and in a seperate page altogether.

Makes life simple for everyone.

I think 50% of the problem is blogrolls on the whole looking like bogrolls. (Did you see what I did there? Comic genius, I tell you.)

It's *so* boring looking at a list of sites and you get no idea of what sort of thing they're providing. More people should do what I do -- here comes the Zionist bit -- and make their site go the extra mile and fetch stuff off their RSS feeds and display that to the world. If you like them that much, you OWE them that much.

I've got mine with about 10 sites in there at the moment with only 7 being displayed at once... The theory being that the most updated one gets more exposure (probably, as it should)... Exactly like the sections here on 9r.

Check it out running on my latest post... at the bottom of the right sidebar.

I check 'em out, especially if they don't have a long blogroll. I've found many great sites that way. I also look at them to see what company the blogger keeps. Says a lot about a person, don't ya know.

I couldn't stop my finger from clicking on it, no muscle required tho' and thanks to wonderful tab browsing (firefox or IE both are good)

I check the blogrolls of websites that I really like and trust and that have short blogrolls. Once they go over 50 I find the usefulness dwindles and it just looks like the person is naming every blog she/he can think of.