Like many veteran bloggers, I abandoned my blogroll ages ago. It was too time-consuming to maintain, particularly as the number of blogs I followed increased. But now my trusty Google Reader has come up with a way for me to automate my blogroll in a completely painless way. It even makes it useful in a novel way: if you click on the “read more” link at the bottom of the blogroll, you’ll see the same river of news that I see in my Google Reader.

I didn’t include every feed I follow in the blogroll: that would be overkill. I made what I thought was a judicious selection of the best.