Take a look at the “Sites to See” module of the right-hand column and you’ll notice some drastic changes, mostly inspired by the fact that our roster of artblogs had grown unmanageably long.
As an experiment:
– We’ve broken the first section of the blogroll, formerly known as Artblogs, into seven different categories: Litblogs, Randomblogs (i.e., blogs that roam unpredictably across the cultural map), Schoolblogs (i.e., art-oriented blogs with a specifically academic slant), Screenblogs, Sightblogs (i.e., blogs about the visual arts), Soundblogs, and Stageblogs (i.e., blogs about theater and dance). If “About Last Night” were part of our roll, it’d be a Randomblog.
– The second section of the blogroll now contains three kinds of art-oriented non-blog sites: Artists, Critics, and Art Links.
– The third section is devoted to Other Blogs (i.e., interesting blogs that occasionally touch on artistic matters but are primarily about something else).
– The fourth, media-oriented section contains three categories: Media/Gossip, Radio (i.e., art-oriented sites maintained by radio stations or specific radio programs), and Print (i.e., art-oriented sites maintained by magazines and newspapers).
– Last is a section of miscellaneous Useful Sites.
Recent additions to the blogroll are followed by an asterisk (*).
Once again, this is an experiment, and thus subject to extensive tinkering. No doubt some blogs belong in categories other than the ones in which they’re presently found, and we’ll move them there sooner or later. In addition, we’ll keep on adding promising-looking blogs and sites on a trial basis as we stumble across them. (Don’t hesitate to tell us about anything you’d like to see on our blogroll.)
Above all, our hope is that subdividing “Sites to See” into a larger number of categories will help you use it more effectively. Conversely, our fear is that organizing the artblogs by subject matter will cut down on the frequency with which you explore blogs that might be slightly off your beaten path. Remember that the whole point of “About Last Night” is to encourage cultural cross-pollination. Keep that in mind as you troll up and down our blogroll.
Let us know what you think. We want “Sites to See” to be useful to you–and we read our mail.
Happy hunting.
UPDATE: OGIC just had a brainstorm, as a result of which we’ve changed “Randomblogs” to “Omniblogs.” Much better.