I use my blogroll as a set of personal bookmarks for blogs, but there are other blogs I check using other people’s blogrolls. They are sort of a service. I whip by the wingers occasionally, but I’m not going to provide them a link because I’m as petty as the next person.

The only reason I have Sitemeter is that it gives me a rough estimate of what the site costs me without having to look at the site stats on my host.

The “blogroll amnesty day” that Kos and Atrios used to start this tiff never really made all that much sense to begin with, because there wasn’t much evidence of any actual need to “clean up” their rolls, but the fired-up reaction by some other folks has seemed a little over the top, too. I found it ironically amusing that some human and marsupial bloggers who either didn’t blogroll me or had dropped me from their rolls were exhorting me to be upset because someone else who DID have me on his blogroll had decided to drop me…