---
title: "Linkblogs"
date: 2003-10-04
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2003"
    url: "/tag/2003.md"
---

# Linkblogs

I’ve been thinking about starting a linkblog, like [Phil Pearson](https://web.archive.org/web/20040216085330/http://www.myelin.co.nz/crash/) has just done. Two of my favourite daily reads are [Anil Dash’s Daily Links](https://web.archive.org/web/20040216085330/http://www.dashes.com/links/) and [Erik Benson’s Morale-o-Meter](https://web.archive.org/web/20040216085330/http://erikbenson.com/index.cgi?node=morale-o-meter). Both those guys post a daily list of external links, with a 1-2 line comment on each link, which pretty much align with my own interests. Personally I prefer it when daily links are kept separate from the author’s main writing blog. Which brings me to my dilemma. Every day I read interesting things on the Web. I want someplace to store those things, because they often seed ideas of my own, which inspire what I write in this weblog.

This continues my owngoing search for the ultimate [Web of Ideas](https://web.archive.org/web/20040216085330/http://www.readwriteweb.com/2003/07/24.html#a84) application. I see a linkblog as being one source of ideas, gathered from the Web. Other sources of ideas include my own mind, books I read, music I listen to, people I converse with, etc.

But the question is – is it worth me publishing my list of links so that people can subscribe to it? Because my special interest is the two-way web, my list of daily links could actually be a useful resource – especially considering the official [Two-Way Web website](https://web.archive.org/web/20040216085330/http://www.thetwowayweb.com/) and the community [Write The Web site](https://web.archive.org/web/20040216085330/http://writetheweb.com/) are no longer being updated (the latter has been taken off the air, which is a pity). So a focussed daily list of links by me, on the topic of the Two-Way Web, could be of value to other people.

Any thoughts?

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/2003/10/04.html#a126))*