Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A list of links provided on a blog to other websites, especially to other blogs or sites with regularly updated content.

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  • noun Internet A blogger's list of hyperlinks to other blogs that he/she recommends.

Etymologies

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From blog and logrolling.

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Examples

  • This beats a static blogroll any day - a blogroll is a pain as blogs are always going defunct, or getting boring, so I take them out of my RSS reader, but then have to go into the Typepad dashboard to update the blogroll (or, actually, not, as I can't be bothered - so the Petrona blogroll isn't very current the further down it you go, and probably has some serious omissions, sadly).

    Web/Tech Maxine 2009

  • This beats a static blogroll any day - a blogroll is a pain as blogs are always going defunct, or getting boring, so I take them out of my RSS reader, but then have to go into the Typepad dashboard to update the blogroll (or, actually, not, as I can't be bothered - so the Petrona blogroll isn't very current the further down it you go, and probably has some serious omissions, sadly).

    Following blogs and other widgets Maxine 2009

  • This beats a static blogroll any day - a blogroll is a pain as blogs are always going defunct, or getting boring, so I take them out of my RSS reader, but then have to go into the Typepad dashboard to update the blogroll (or, actually, not, as I can't be bothered - so the Petrona blogroll isn't very current the further down it you go, and probably has some serious omissions, sadly).

    March 2009 Maxine 2009

  • This beats a static blogroll any day - a blogroll is a pain as blogs are always going defunct, or getting boring, so I take them out of my RSS reader, but then have to go into the Typepad dashboard to update the blogroll (or, actually, not, as I can't be bothered - so the Petrona blogroll isn't very current the further down it you go, and probably has some serious omissions, sadly).

    Following blogs and other widgets Maxine 2009

  • I must admit homey, your blogroll is simply one of the best.

    Matthew Yglesias » Chile Earthquake 2010

  • This may under-represent the left a bit, but I think that with the growth of weblogs our blogroll is going to under-represent everything at this point.

    Water Privatization, Continued, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • - My blogroll is growing every week, it seems, and many of them are more than just a decent read ... their damn-near indispensable to me and my own writing education.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • - My blogroll is growing every week, it seems, and many of them are more than just a decent read ... their damn-near indispensable to me and my own writing education.

    Random Rants 2009

  • Your blogroll is great, and I'm honored to be included.

    Blog Roll Update Peggy 2008

  • A blogroll is also useful for getting links from popular bloggers.

    Make Your Blog Stickier 2007

  • The term blogroll comes from the early days of blogging, when bloggers would often include a list of useful links on their blog (it was literally a roll call of your favorite links. hence, blogroll).

    Blogrolls: Making Writer Discovery Seamless Sam Jayne 2022

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  • A blogroll is a list of relevant blogs or related blogs that are listed on a blog's web site.

    July 15, 2009

  • "Found on blogs it is a list of links to other blogs and Web sites that the blog author commonly references or is affiliated with. Blogrolls help blog authors to establish and build upon a their blogger community. In Web 1.0 terminology, a blogroll would be the equivalent of a list of hyperlinks on a personal Web page." --Webopedia

    July 24, 2009