I started running a basic link blog on this domain back in November 2003—publishing links (which I called “blogmarks”) with a title, URL, short snippet of commentary and a “via” link where appropriate. So far I’ve published 7,607 link blog posts and counting.

In April of this year I finally upgraded my link blog to support Markdown, allowing me to expand my link blog into something with a lot more room. The way I use my link blog has evolved substantially in the eight months since then. I’m going to describe the informal set of guidelines I’ve set myself for how I link blog, in the hope that it might encourage other people to give this a try themselves.