Alright ... wow ... today is gone. I've been hunting down the last bits I need to finish an interview. I think I'll get to share it with ya'll on Friday.

I've gotten several questions about my Blog Alliance idea.

The first being "are your comments off?" welllll not exactly. They are code from HaloScan that I have to remember to put into every post. Since I just started using them, I tend to forget. This is the second time. So I'll put the code in this post and ya'll can talk here ... since I'm on the same topic anyway.

"I have a Blogroll. Do you need a separate blogroll?" No, I personally do not need to go under a new header in your blogroll. I don't want to be lonely – the lone one. If you create your own alliances outside of the one with me – then how (even if) you display your list is up to you and your ideas and plans.

My answer for me: Yes, I do plan to list separately the bloggers who make an alliance with me to signal that we have a mutual agreement. They are not just names I've gathered.

"What is a blogroll anyway?" Ok. Keep in mind I'm new to this stuff but I've been doing some reading ... so I'm going to do what I'm expert at ... disseminate the info.

Blogrolls are lists of blogs that the blog owner aka blogger

• Likes and wants to recommend. Hopefully the blogger is reading the blogs and contributing to the conversations on these blogs.
  
• Adds because the blogger is a member of a group and the group has a blogroll display box code thing. (Alright let's remember I'm also leaving geek-dom and I can use average user speak anytime I want to.)
  
• Thinks it will make a good impression on others or the search engines.
  
• Adds because he/she isn't aware that they could be confusing the dickens out of the search engines. (Ok so let's say that I'm way into photography, wanting to go pro, etc. It would help if I had more blogs listed about photography than say oh pizza. And if I could also add the mommy-blogs of my clients who are recommending me ... that would be gold.)

I believe that blogrolls also function in another way ... as social signals that say ...

• I've been around long enough to have garnished these uhmm "badges of roaming"
  
• Look I know people you know ... we can be buddies ... we have similar networking habits.
  
• I'm important because I hang out with the big dogs ... well at least I have enough sense to know who the big dogs are.

Basically, Blogrolls can act as third-party validation: You see me. You see a name you know in my blogroll. I must be at least worth giving a short listen to.

Some bloggers are getting specific in their labels: Recommended Reading, Resources, etc. And I will be one of those kinds of bloggers. And I will start with "Blog Alliance Roll."

I'm going to start announcing my alliances on Monday. To my surprise, I already have a few ... even without the comment code :-(

Yes, the ad is projecting a subliminal re one of my needs. Can you believe this is half way?

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