Blogroll Amnesty Day

This phrase has cropped up on the net the past couple days, and I finally found out what it means. It has to do with how you get on the "blogroll" of the big important bloggers.

For small unimportant bloggers like me, all you have to do is ask. Send an email saying that you've added me to your blogroll and asking that I reciprocate, and I do so at once. I even send you a return email thanking you. We both gain readership and everybody comes out ahead.

But if you are a big important blogger there is only one day per year that such a request is answered, which is why most of the blogs that are on my blogroll do not have reciprocal links to my blog. I added the link and sent the email, but I didn't do it on the one day per year that the big important bloggers were open to such invitations. Who knew?

Update: Sunday, 8:00am

This post has led, directly and indirectly, to quite a lot of other bloggers who indicate an openness to reciprocal links. It will take me a few days, but I'm going to pursue those leads in some depth as I have time to do so.

Update: Super Bowl Sunday

Today I'm going to hope that both teams lose a football game: the one that knocked my team out of the Super Bowl, and the one quarterbacked by the spoiled brat who rejected my team's draft four years ago.

In SD this is regarded as the most unwatchable Super Bowl in history.