A whole new blog roll

Noah Kagan (of Okdork) asked me about my blogroll last week, and it set me thinking. I deliberately chose to have a small list, and I tend not to update it regularly because I have to republish the entire site via Blogger to do it. But most of the entries in the blog roll were very well ranked and busy blogs, and I don't think either readers of this blog, or those bloggers, would really benefit from the links. So, out went Guy, Seth and Joel, and in came Patrick, Andrey, Phil, and a few others. I decided to have 10 blogs plus Planet Micro ISV.

Hopefully I'll update it a little more regularly than I have done in the past, and I'll sleep easier knowing my link karma is being put to better use. If I've been reading and linking to your blog a lot lately and I missed you, I'm really sorry.

While I was at it, I made a few more changes to the blog template:-

• Added a forums section with links to some of the places I tend to hang out.
• Added a Micro ISV Digest section, with a little explanation and links to help find archived digest posts. I added this last week after it was suggested in the BoS forum, but I hadn't mentioned it before.
• Added digg and reddit buttons (using the instructions I wrote in march!).
• Added a subscribe by email form, via feedburner. I'm not sure if this will be popular or not, it's not something I would use, but if you prefer to get your updates by email, the option is now there. I'm sorry there's no way for you to sign up for just the Micro ISV Digest (Technorati might be able to help you with that), so you'll have to put up with, on average, a couple of other posts from me each week.
• I also removed the "90 day trial" caption from the Web Helper Browser button on the right, after someone on the BoS forum quite logically assumed that it might apply to both products. Oriador Staff Rota, my employee scheduling software, has a 45 day trial period. Even though I issue trial extensions all the time, I want to avoid possible confusion.

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