Blogrolling.com closes shop with no prior notice
I had a blogroll yesterday morning. By the afternoon, it had vanished. When I checked Blogrolling.com last night to see whether there was a problem, this was all that was left. Now what? Suggestions--and assistance for Ms. Tech Challenged--would be appreciated.
Many thanks to Sheyna Galyan for all of her help in setting up my now-defunct blogroll. It worked very well for almost four years, until Blogrolling.com went out of business.
Many thanks to Sheyna Galyan for all of her help in setting up my now-defunct blogroll. It worked very well for almost four years, until Blogrolling.com went out of business.
posted by Shira Salamone at 1:12 AM
17 Comments:
Blogger has a perfectly serviceable links widget which is what I've been using. You can add it from the layout page.
I've never used a widget, and have no idea how to add one to my layout page. How is this done?
Your public service posts, archives, and about me are all widgets. Even the Blogrolling thing was (I used it briefly)
Login
Go to your Dashboard
Select "Design" under Ont The Fringe - Al Tzitzit
Choose "Add Gadget" in the area you want it.
Choose Blog List from the pop up that comes up. It will be added to the Design page.
Click on Edit and enter your Blogs.
I don't know. I put all the links on my blogroll in manually. Maybe that could be an option for you?
This is what I have, at the moment, under "Edit HTML." What should I do with it?
I'll try to divide the code over several comments, as Blogger doesn't want to post Javascript.
<a
href="javascript:void(rollpop
=window.open('http://www.blogrolling.com/add_links_pop.phtml?u
=
http://onthefringe_jewishblog.blogspot.com/&t=On the
Fringe','rollit','scrollbars=no,width=
Change the [ ] to < >:
475,height=350,left=75,top=175,status=yes,resizable=yes'));rollpop.focus();">Blogroll
Me![/a]
I used an out-of-date Word copy of my defunct blogroll and what little is left of my memory to reconstruct a list of blogs for my new blogroll. I now have 33 URLs all ready to go, saved in Word, if I could just figure out how to "insert" them into my template. Some assistance from the more tech-savvy would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Here's the list, if that'll help:
1. Aussie Dave Israellycool: http://www.israellycool.com/author/admin/
2. Bad for Shidduchim: http://badforshidduchim.wordpress.com/
3. Books and Beliefs (Sheyna Galyan): http://booksandbeliefs.blogspot.com/
4. Coffee and Chemo (RivkA bat Yishaya v’Teirtzel, AH): http://coffeeandchemo.blogspot.com/
5. Conservadox (Woodrow): http://conservadox.tripod.com/
6. Conservadox & Single (no-longer-single Katrina): http://conservadoxandsingle.blogspot.com/
7. DovBear: http://dovbear.blogspot.com/
8. Drew Kaplan’s Blog: http://drewkaplans.blogspot.com/
9. Eclectic Jewish Thoughts (Larry Lennhoff): http://llennhoff.blogspot.com/
10. Emes Ve-Emunah (R. Harry Maryles): http://www.haemtza.blogspot.com/
11. Frum Satire (Heshy Fried): http://www.frumsatire.net/
12. Hasidic Rebel: http://hasidicrebel.blogspot.com/
13. Hirhurim (R. Gil Student & co.): http://torahmusings.com/
14. Ilana-Davita: http://ilanadavita.wordpress.com/
15. Jameel at The Muqata: http://muqata.blogspot.com/
16. Jewesses with Attitude: http://jwablog.jwa.org/
17. Mah Rabu (BZ): http://mahrabu.blogspot.com/
18. More Tales of Crime and Treason on the High Seas (Fudge): http://crimeandtreasononthehighseas.blogspot.com/
19. My Obiter Dicta (R. Jeffrey Woolf): http://myobiterdicta.blogspot.com/
20. On the Contrary (ADDeRabbi): http://adderabbi.blogspot.com/
21. Psycho Toddler (Mark Moshe Skier): http://psychotoddler.blogspot.com/
22. Rabbi Barry Leff’s Blog: http://www.neshamah.net/
23. Random Thoughts—Do They Have Meaning? (Jack): http://wwwjackbenimble.blogspot.com/
24. The Curious Jew (Chana): http://curiousjew.blogspot.com/
25. To Kiss a Mezuzah (Susan Esther Barnes): http://www.kissamezuzah.blogspot.com/
26. This Normal Life—All about “normal” life in Israel (Brian Blum): http://www.thisnormallife.com/
27. Threads of Blue (Techelet): http://techelet.wordpress.com/
28. Treppenwitz (David Bogner): http://www.treppenwitz.com/
29. Serandez & Friends (Ezzie, etc.): http://serandez.blogspot.com/
30. Seraphic Secret (Robert J. Avrech): http://www.seraphicpress.com/
31. Soccer Dad: http://soccerdad.baltiblogs.com/
32. West Bank Mama: http://westbankmama.wordpress.com/
33. Wolfish Musings (Brooklyn Wolf): http://westbankmama.wordpress.com/
Blink.
My blogroll just magically reappeared.
I'm not holding my breath that it'll stay that way, but it would be nice.
I don't want to spoil the joy but I cannot see it.
Yeah, so I see--or not. :( I have three windows of my blog open at the moment. The blogroll appears in only one, and I've sure it will disappear as soon as I click on "Refresh." This time, I got smart--I just copied my blogroll right off the screen and pasted it into a Word document, so it's now saved for posterity.
Now, to figure out how to reconstruct it when it disappears again.
Sure enough, the blogroll disappeared the minute I published the previous comment. :( It was nice while it lasted.
Read it and weep: I copied this back from Word, but the links don't work in the Word version--all I have are the blog names. :(
MY BLOGROLL
This Normal Life
My Shrapnel (terror victim lives to blog about it--with humor)
Israellycool (creator of the JIB Awards)
Ha'azina Tefilati (Rivka)
pearlies of wisdom (torontopearl)
Rabbi Barry Leff's Blog
Baynomim--a man in the middle (currently inactive)
WestBankBlog (West Bank Mama)
Study Hall of the Goblin King (Steg)
Orthonomics (SephardiLady)
Mrs. Balabusta
RaggedyMom
Drew Kaplan's Blog
Da'as Hedyot
The Curious Jew (Chana)
Conservadox & (no longer) Single (katrina)
Conservadox (Woodrow)
Psycho Toddler
Bad for Shidduchim (but good at writing)
Elie's Expositions
Life as we know it (Iguana)
KaBlogAlah (Eliyahu)
Sefer Ha-Bloggadah
ADDeRabbi--On the Contrary!
Wolfish Musings (Brooklyn Wolf)
Out of Step Jew (currently inactive)
Hirhurim (Rabbi Gil Student & co.)
Jewess (not crazy about the name, but . . .)
JRants.com (links to recent posts in the Jewish blogosphere)
Jewschool
Barefoot Jewess
J-Blogosphere Blog--the official blog of the J-blogosphere, with a link to Haveil Havalim
Seraphic Secret (Robert Avrech)
Emes Ve-Emunah (Harry Maryles)
More Tales of Crime and Treason on the High Seas (Fudge)
Haveil Havalim blog carnival--submit post!
JewishBlogging (links to recent posts in the Jewish blogosphere)
Books and Beliefs (Sheyna Galyan)
Out of Ammo ("Curly")
treppenwitz
My Obiter Dicta (Rabbi Jeffrey R. Woolf)
Orthoprax
Nice Jewish Girl (currently inactive)
Haveil Havalim blog carnival--link to current post, info re next post
DovBear
Kindness Happens
Ask Shifra
Frum Satire (Hesh)--Caution: *Not* a family blog!
The Muqata (Jameel)
Psyche Ward .36 (30CAL/"Moe")
Soccer Dad (creator of Haveil Havalim)
Hasidic Rebel (a pioneer is back!)
West Bank Mama (eff. Feb. 5, 2007)
Things That Never Happened (Rafiki/"Larry")
Mah Rabu (BZ)
Baraita (currently inactive)
JBlogSphere.Net - another J-blog Aggregator! ( (links to recent posts in the Jewish blogosphere)
SerandEz
The House of Hock (inactive, but good archive--chief guest blogger: Noam/Dilbert)
The Reform Baal Teshuvah
Eclectic Jewish Thoughts (Larry Lennhoff)
To Kiss A Mezuzah (Susan)
Modern Orthoprax & Heterodox (XGH)
Threads of Blue (Techelet)
Coffee and Chemo (RivkA bat Teirtzel)
Star of Davida (Talia)
Ilana-Davita
Here in HP (Leora)
Jewesses With Attitude
The Sandman (Quietus Leo, anesthesiologist)
Random Thoughts- Do They Have Meaning? (Jack)
I'm sorry you're going through this. I'm not tech savvy either. The widget on blogspot works for me, and the instructions from the previous commenter should work, if you can remember all the blogs on your roll.
Susan, I can't follow Reform BT's instructions because, for whatever reason, my Dashboard doesn't seem to be laid out the way he describes it. There's no link that says "Design," so I clicked on "Template" and looked for an "Add Gadget" link. No such luck. :( Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place.
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