I have a blogging problem. I have to come clean and admit it. I’m sure a lot of you are now nodding your heads and thinking to yourself – “We already know that. We see it every single time you hit that ‘publish post’ button.” While that may be true, it’s not the immediate problem I’m prepared to talk about here. My main issue right now is the sheer number of interesting blogs out there I’d like to link to. There are just too many of them.
As you’ve probably observed, my blogroll on the right is a dynamic one, which updates and sorts itself based on the publication of new posts. That works great for 20 or 30 blogs, but not very well for 50+. I don’t want to get rid of the dynamic blogroll, but I don’t want to stop adding interesting links for readers. Either I need the world to become less interesting, or I need a better approach for linking to lots of blogs.
My solution is a new page, entitled (imaginatively enough) Femdom Blogs. This is modeled along similar lines to my Images and Equipment pages, with some approximate link categorization for a few distinct lists. This new page will always contain 100% of all the links I publish. My dynamic blogroll on the right will be a subset of that, hosting newly discovered links and links to blogs that both regularly update and are personal favorites (i.e. I read every update). This way I can keep updating the blogroll with new and interesting stuff while having a much larger static collection on a separate page.
Right now the page basically lists what is already in my blogroll, albeit with a few additions to the Sex section (Savage Love, Tiny Nibbles and Viviane’s Sex Carnival). For step two, in my post tomorrow, I’ll do some shuffling and introduce some new femdom and kink links.
In the meantime here’s a pleasant image for your viewing pleasure. It has no correlation with this post. But anyone making it this far through my random site admin thoughts deserves a little eye candy.
I came to this via the Undiscovered Limits (aka Untamed Dark Mane) tumblr. It’s originally from the Strap-on Hell site.
Hi paltego,
I appreciate your problem and Em and I have a teensy one, too.
We really appreciate being included on your blogroll and turn to your blog daily to see what’s up. So, please don’t take this too seriously. It’s not a big deal.
We have always seen Mrs. Kelly’s Playhouse as a mutual effort. It was our shared space to explore whatever came to mind or whatever was going on with us. In the last year or so, Em dropped from sight due to school and a career change. But that’s basically a thing of the past and she’s participating with more regularity now.
The idea that our blog is a shared perspective is a basic premise of our blog and that’s important because we’ve always tried to emphasize that we are a couple and that we have our mutual happiness and fulfillment at heart. We really are deeply committed to couples making sex work for them and not against them.
Keep up the great work and thanks for keeping us on your list.
Best,
scott
Mrs. Kelly’s Playhouse
Hey scott,
You didn’t actually say so explicitly, but I assume you’re talking about the blog categorization on the new blog page, where I’ve split it into female/male writer categories – correct?
I did struggle with these groupings, with yours in particular one that seemed tricky to fit. In fact it was you I had in mind when I wrote the bit at the top saying how/why I’d grouped them and to ping me if anyone disagreed. For the moment I’ve created a new category “Femdom from couples (or more) perspective” and moved yours to there, along with another that seemed to fit better there. However, I reserve the right to re-categorize things at a future date should the mood take me or I come up with a better way to slice and dice these blogs 🙂
-paltego
Hi paltego,
That was the issue… and I don’t question your right to do as you please on your blog. We just made a point on ours, from the start, that it was a joint effort and, though the balance shifted onto my shoulders more in the last couple of years, we still see it that way. In fact, back in 2007 when we started the blog, it was her idea and her baby, and as I re-post entries from the old Blogger site, I think our readers will see just how much a shared blog it was.
Thanks for shifting “Mrs. Kelly’s Playhouse” into a new category. You are one of our favorite sites, by the way.
Best,
scott
Mrs. Kelly’s Playhouse