Comments on: Weekly Links – March 15th

By: March’s Best Links | Vandelay Website Design

March’s Best Links | Vandelay Website Design — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:35:52 +0000

[...] best links from each week. A few weeks ago I decided to change that from every week to every month (you can read my reasoning here). So, here are many of the articles that I have really enjoyed this [...]

By: Vandelay Design

Vandelay Design — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:12:17 +0000

Eric,
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, I appreciate it. And thanks for reading many of the links that I have shared. I am still planning on doing a monthly roundup, so hopefully that will be helpful.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:02:56 +0000

Steven,

I will really miss weekly links from you. This is one post that I read every Friday. I generally read most of the articles that you link to, including those which you write for other blogs. It’s kind of my “what did I miss this week” post.

Frankly, my feedreader has several feeds in it because of sites that I picked up on in your weekly links. I know you are leaning the other way, but I’ll miss them.

By: Antonio Lupetti

Antonio Lupetti — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:45:26 +0000

I also have reduced the frequency which I publish my post on my blog (woork). In general now I publish 3 / 4 post for week but I work to make each post popular on delicious how it happends.

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:24:12 +0000

Your links are always great and I understand your decision to do whatever you like. To newbies its great to see what the more experienced folks like yourself look at, like and recommend. Thanks.

By: Vinh Le

Vinh Le — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:37:34 +0000

I think it also depends on how much time it takes you to compile the links. If it is taking up too much time that you can be using for writing more articles, then making it once a month might work out better. But if it doesn’t take much time, I don’t see the reason for stopping it just because it constitutes 25% of your posts. I find it useful and thanks for linking me. (Slips 20 bucks over)

By: Vandelay Design

Vandelay Design — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:19:02 +0000

Verne,
You’re welcome for the link, and thanks for your comments. The lack of freshness is one of the things I have thought about. I think some content is more time-sensitive than others, but this is definitely something to consider. Thanks.

By: Verne

Verne — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:36:49 +0000

Thanks for the love Steven!

I like the idea of reducing the links-to-articles ratio but the one thing that sort of bothers me about monthly link round-ups is that the lists are often really long (or it becomes increasingly difficult for you to pick just the best of the best due to the speed that new content comes out at), and often times by month-end the content that’s being shared is somewhat outdated already (especially for those who may have wanted to participate in discussions on certain articles).

These aren’t huge inconveniences but maybe something to keep in mind. I think we all appreciate your efforts to continuously improve the quality of material here nonetheless. Keep it up!

By: Vandelay Design

Vandelay Design — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:44:33 +0000

David,
Thanks for your feedback. I appreciate it. I am pretty strongly leaning that way.

By: David Airey

David Airey — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:27:23 +0000

I think a change of format would be good. Personally, 25% of your content becoming links wouldn’t be the best route. Every 3 or 4 weeks would be more appropriate.