Blog House Cleaning

Renting a bull dozer and steam shovel helps to pick up the mess in my house every so often. Books pile up. Clippings accumulate. Filing takes a back seat. And the ironing pile threatens to topple. The blog equivalent of such housekeeping chores includes purging nonfunctional links. (This applies to any website, of course.) And the corner for first attention is the Reciprocity list in the right column.

For a link to remain on the home page of A Writer's Edge, it must connect to another home page where this blog is listed. The permanent link can appear in a list or in every post (preferable but unlikely) on a web page. At my discretion, I also delist blogs with no posts in the last six months. Purely arbitrary.

This cleanup doesn't apply to the noble souls in the Blog Action Day Chain. Their links will remain until the party's over -- October 15 -- only a week away. There's still time to climb on board and post against Poverty next Wednesday.