Once upon a time, blogs had blogrolls. If you had a blog, you would include a list of blogs you thought would be interesting to your readers in a sidebar on your page.
After a while, if you had a lot of blogs to keep track of, you learned about feed readers. Back then, there were many feed readers, but gradually Google came to dominate the feed reader space. Google Reader allowed you to create a sidebar widget that linked to new posts from the blogs on your list.
Then Google Reader changed its API (as it is wont to do), and now you could only provide a list of the blogs on your sidebar, which wasn’t as good, because some of them were defunct, and a person could waste a lot of time clicking through to blogs that hadn’t been updated since 2006.
And now Google Reader is going away. I’ve migrated my feeds to NetVibes, but NetVibes doesn’t provide an easy way to display a blogroll or recent posts on my website.
Since I was fiddling with my OPML file anyway, I figured it might be useful to post a list of the disability related blogs I subscribe to. This is just a snapshot of today’s subscriptions, and many of these blogs are sadly defunct. I hope, though, that you find something in here to interest and inform you.
- … …. Wobbly teetering blogging
- | not invisible |
- 56 days or less
- A Girl Named Roo
- A Girl’s Guide to Wheelchair Racing
- A Wheelchair View
- Abled
- abledbody
- About.com Multiple Sclerosis: What’s Hot Now
- Adventures in Modern Life
- Aided Mobility
- aliciareagan
- Angela C. Orlando – Deaf-Blind and Determined
- Aufgerollt
- AXIS
- AXIS Dance Company
- Bad Cripple
- badgerbag: messy, surly, full of books
- Badgermama
- Barrier Free Travels
- Barriers, Bridges and Books
- BBC – Ouch
- Behindertenparkplatz
- Beyond Acquara
- Crip Chronicles
- Cruisin’ with Cricket
- Current Illusions
- Czech-ing in with Sherry
- Dancing Denali
- Dave Jacka – On a Wing & a Chair
- Diary of a Goldfish
- Disability Studies, Temple U.
- Enjoying the Ride
- Eyeronic!
- fasterbarnacle
- Frida Writes
- Funky Mango’s Musings
- FWD/Forward
- Get Around Guide — the blog
- Get fit, get up
- Gimp ‘Tude
- Growing up with a disability
- Hack Ability
- Haddayr’s Blog
- Have a Heart of Fire; Have a Heart of Gold
- hot wheels and spike heels
- How to be an Inspiration
- I Don’t Like Fun People. I Like You.
- LeftyByDefault.com – Laura Overstreet
- Life! disabled
- Lisybabe’s Blog
- Literally Blindsided
- Liz McTernan: ParaTriathlete
- Mario Battuta
- Medieval Cripples, Crazies and Imbeciles … and a Service Dog?
- Midlife And Treachery
- Mike Savicki – This Is How I Roll – The Blog
- Mind Sprints
- MS recess
- MS Renegade
- Ms. Lab Rat
- National MS Society Blog
- NCPAD Blog – Endless CapABILITIES
- not not blind
- Not Your Teachable Moment
- Nourish
- Off the Wall Disability and Disabled Blog
- one life
- People Aren’t Broken
- Planet of the Blind
- poetic propaganda
- Postulations from my simian posture
- Primary Lateral Sclerosis
- ProfSpazz
- recht auf klo
- Riparians at the Gate
- Robert & Ellyn
- Roger Ebert’s Journal
- Roger’s Thoughts
- Rolling Around In My Head
- Rolling Rains Report:
- ruedas_en_bogota
- Scarlet Sees Red – Mik Scarlet’s Blog
- Screw Bronze!
- Smart Ass Cripple
- Spashionista Report
- Stirring the Pot
- Tactile The World
- Tales from the classroom
- The 19th Floor
- The Deal with Disability
- The Deal with Disability
- The Digital Awakening
- The Fabulous Adventures of a Four-Legged Woman
- The Gifts of MS
- The Gimp Parade
- The Perorations of Lady Bracknell
- The Wheel Deal
- The World on Wheels
- Travels With Pain
- Trials and tribulations of a deaf/blind bint…!
- Trish Downing
- WeFly2
- We Push Sports
- We Will Find A Way
- Wheelchair Dancer
- Wheelchair Diaries
- Wheelchair Diffusion blog
- Wheelchair Kamikaze
- WHEELIE cATHOLIC
- When I Walk
- Where’s Lulu?
Wow!! Great list, thanks for posting it, I will have fun exploring!
ta Katja – rueing Reader’s imminent demise and still with no game plan for post the final death knell in this lil possie of the world, sigh.