The Blog Recycle Station

I had this great idea, and it was all because of a post by blogger buddy Karen Amanda Hooper, which you can view here.  Although the content of her post was awesome, it was the reason why she ran that particular blog entry that intrigued me.  You see, Karen was having a busy time last week and didn’t have time to write an original article, so she re-posted an old blog entry instead.  It was a great piece of writing that she originally posted a year ago, long before I’d found her blog.  That got me thinking.  All of us have probably missed out on some great blog entries because they were posted before we became followers, or they hit the blogosphere during a hectic time in our own schedules.  On the flip side, there’s also some great material we’ve all written buried deep in our archives that our most recent followers have never seen.  Let’s face it, who has time to comb through old blog entries in search of interesting material?

DL to the rescue!  Here’s my idea...each of us needs to remember back to some of your favorite blog topics you’ve posted.  It can be instructional, inspirational, informative, humorous, or off the wall.  Doesn’t matter.  What does matter is that you really care about it and you’d like to put it out there for everybody to enjoy again.  Pick one of those old blog postings and paste the link to it in the comment you leave here today.  Easy peasy.  Now it lives again, and what’s even cooler is that if everyone participates my comment section will become sort of a blog mix tape, chock full of our favorites.  How awesome would that be?!

For the less technical out there, here’s how you go about leaving the link.  First, find the blog you want to link and double click on it to bring it to the main page.  Now copy the address from the address bar near the top of the screen.  In the comment you leave here, paste in that address.  As an example, I’m going to paste the link to Karen’s blog entry.

http://karenamandahooper.blogspot.com/2010/07/we-do-hokey-pokey.html

Now type    <a href="    before the address, and    ">Link</a>    after.

What will appear in your finished comment, once its published, will just be Link.  Of course, if you wanted to preface it with some background information or a little blurb, that’s just fine too.  If anybody needs help making this work, just give me a holler and I’ll walk you through it.

Sound like a plan?  I’m pumped to see what you guys post.  What amazing gems do you have hidden in those archives?