In an effort to improve my website, I spent part of my evening going through all of my links to make sure they still worked. To my surprise, I’ve found that some sites that previously were linked to mine no longer were, so I decided to drop those links. Most of them were out of the area, but a few local ones have been cut too. You may notice the category order has been changed up somewhat as well. Further, many of these categories are now ordered from most to least recently updated, so frequent updates push a website closer to the top. (For some reason, that’s not quite working right. Scratch that. I’ll just place them back in random order.)
In the meantime I added a number of political links. Most of the ones I added were campaign blogs from various candidates, which I’ve sometimes found helpful as background information on issues. (And sometimes I feel like I’m getting the tour of Iowa. I’m sure it’s a nice state but sitting in Maryland I really see no point.) Also now there’s a couple new categories for “Campaign and Political Blogs” as well as “Political Websites” where I link to the local and state GOP as a start.
I also opted to drop the categories and links for the Green, Libertarian, and (inactive) Constitution Party candidates because I don’t think they have a Maryland primary. The idea for me is to have links to people one can actually vote for in the state. If a person’s not on the ballot in Maryland why bother with placing a link? Once the general election field is set and those parties are included then I’ll add back the proper links as those minor parties determine their contenders.
I think this makes the site more useful as a political resource, which is one of my goals. I’ll likely continue to add links to various political groups I use for reading and additional resources, placing them in the “Political Websites” category.
Whether I continue to maintain my #1 status for next week is yet to be determined, but I’m going to try hard to either keep it or get it back!
