i link, you link, we link?

I hope that Richard won't mind me mentioning that a couple of weeks ago we had a little off-blog discussion about how we respond to bloggers who ask for reciprocal links. I said at the time that no one had ever asked me, so it wasn't something I'd yet had to consider. But lo and behold, and out of the blue, they start arriving, usually prefaced with words along the lines of 'your site is awesome'.

Well, excuse me, but it's not awesome. If you want awesome, you're looking in the wrong place my friends. This is just a little bit of noodling to lighten the load of the day, sometimes to bring you a little amusement, and sometimes to have a little grump. But it ain't gonna change the world, is it?

So here are two simple rules that you need to know before you ask me for a link:

1. Unless I already know you (in the virtual web 2.0 sense), your request will fall on deaf ears, so don't bother;

2. Look over there on the right, and scroll down to the bottom. There's a heading 'I'm keeping an eye on these ten'. That list gets reviewed at the beginning of each year. So, if you still want a link, you've got to displace one of those ten come next January.

It's not that I'm grumpy or anything, but that's just the way it goes around here.

Comments

[Lora]

I just happen to think "little bits of noodling to lighten the load of the day" are awesome :). If little things that make you smile each day can't be awesome, then what is?

I don't even have a blog/website, so I'm not looking for a link in case you were wondering...