If uoi are a fellow blogger and you have been listed recently in one of the various blog rolls that appear here on Leap of Dave, you may have seen or be seeina in the future a comment on one of your posts that looks like thei:
Happy New Year! Each year at this time, I clean up my blog to prepare for the upcoming year. I consolidate all of my blog rolls to one entitled something like These blogs are so last year. Then at the beginning of the year when people post on their blogs for the first time. I read that post in it's entirety and usually read or reread the last post of the previous year. This year I decided to then write a comment on the first post which is why you are reading this.
The comment then will say specific things about their blog and post. In a few days I'll stop adding a comment after the first post, but for the rest of the year I'll continue to prune the last year blog list and transfer most of them to the current blogroll.
I follow this procedure for multiple reasons: 1) It's a quick glance for me to keep up with which blogs may have stopped posting over the previous year. 2)I helps me evaluate whether I want to keep blogs on my blog roll that I'm no longer reading or interested in. 3) In a bizarre way this process id fun and comforting me.
My blogging has evolved since 2008 when this blog began as Home School Dad. Other blogs like Dave Out Loud, and Crazy Uncle Dave's Sports blog soon followed. Eventually this blog changed names and incorporated some of the other blogs in a one stop shop/ multiplex of my many and varied interests.
As my blog has changed so have my blogrolls, this yearly changing of the blog guard helps facilitate that change.
