Site changes

I have made changes to my blog roll. The main thing is that I replaced my list with my disability RSS feed. Stuff that wouldn’t transfer as an RSS, I have kept as web links. Most of the blogs I had successfully made the change. Some didn’t, either because I find myself not reading them, they update even less often than I do, or something weird just happens when I try to subscribe to them (Evil Lunch Lady, I’m looking at you!). And there’s always the probability that I just screwed up and deleted something I meant to keep.

Anyway, I hope you like it, and if you are feeling left out, drop me a line.

Shucks…

Girl, Dislocated has put me on her list. What list, you may ask? Why, this one:

So now I am forced, forced, I tell you, to update my blog again, despite its title. For the rules of this award are to pass along Kayla’s blog link, and to point out 10 other excellent blogs. This is a really neat way of making sure smaller blogs get their kudos, so on to the winners’ circle, in no particular order:

1. Through Myself and Back Again
2. Y Laurie
3. Bums & Bellybuttons
4. Screw Bronze!
5. The Old Foodie–Lileks shows you pictures of horrible food. The Old Foodie shows you how to prepare it.
6. Respectful Insolence
7. Girl, Dislocated (Backatcha, Girl!)
8. Crimes Against People with Disabilities–not a happy place, but a sadly necessary one.
9. Polite Dissent
10. In Sickness and In Health

Well, you know what I’ve learned from doing this? I’ve learned that I really need to update my blog roll. And if you think I should be reading your blog, leave me a link. Then, maybe someday, I’ll move your link from my bookmarks to my blog links.

Put your oar in

I took a look at Disapedia today. It’s got that whole Web 2.0 thing happening which means, well, I’ll let webmaster Peter explain:

What makes Disapedia special? Why should anyone spend their time visiting or, more importantly, contributing to a site when there hundreds if not thousands of sites ostensibly dedicated to the same cause. The answer is control. The community controls its destiny on the website not just in name, but in actual physical control. For so long the battle for the disability community has been over the ability to gain control of their lives. Why should their communities and forums be any different?

So, just as the advent of the internet allowed the disabled community to cover the world and find individuals who shared the same struggles and joys of being disabled, the next shift in the internet, Web 2.0, has the potential to have just as big of an impact on the disabled community. In an era of collaborative efforts and such project as Wikipedia, MySpace, or Diggit, we have a chance to create a place that reflects our own desires. Many sites have tried to do it in the past, but because they were started by just an individual or a small group of people, they failed, or the project was abandoned and eventually became out of date. With a community though, there are thousands to make sure that Disapedia will always remain up to date and the best resource for disability on the internet, no matter what the subject.

I can’t say as there’s a whole lot at the site right now. But there will be if you go put in your oar.