Blogtitlan, elenamary seeks your advice
September 17th, 2008 by 
elenamary
When I first started keeping track of blogtitlan it pretty much consisted of Cindylu, Julio Sueco, El Pocho Abogado and El Daily Texican. Cindylu was an undergrad El Pocho Abogado was getting ready to start law school. Now Cindylu is almost finished with her PhD, El Pocho Abgoado is a practicing Abogado, Daily Texican stopped blogging while he is in Law School and Julio Sueco is still as far as I am concerned the Godfather of Xicano blogging.
In the early days it was easy to keep track of Blogtitlan, we were small, we all knew each other, we all read each others work. Now, there seem to be hundreds of Latinos bloggers and I have not updated Blogtitlan in years. I am wondering if it is even worth updating. We’ve got blog search engines now and we have technorati, those resources didn’t exist when I started keeping track of blogtitlan. So my question to those in blogtitlan, should I got ahead and update my blogtitlan list or should I just delete it? Does it really serve a purpose anymore? How do you filter the good from the bad?
(I realized today how out of it I am in that only today did I discover Luis’ SerLatino…and this only more so drives home the feeling that there is too much information and too many blogs for me to keep up with.)
luis Says:
September 18th, 2008 at 12:12 am
Here’s a 2.0ish idea:
Why don’t you “lend it” and have another blogger take care of the list for a while and the he/she would pass it on to another blogger (a la ninio Dios)?
The term Blogtitlan is well identified with you already, so it would still be yours, you would just be asking others for a small, yet valuable, membership fee in the form of time. Then we would all just point to the most updated list wherever it is… By 2051 (when we all latino bloggers are majority, ja!) hopefully there would be hundreds of blogotitlan posts and you would be able to see a snapshot of it in any given time…and see how it morphed over time. Kind of an interesting social experiment…
Or… Just update the list mujer!:)
cindylu Says:
September 18th, 2008 at 2:09 am
I would let it go. You’re right. It’s a lot to handle. Instead, link to those blogs you find most interesting, educational, funny, etc. A lot of people have told me they find the blogs they read through blogrolls from bloggers they respect and enjoy.
kyledeb Says:
September 18th, 2008 at 3:06 am
Ooo! Ooo!
Add me! Add me!
Gina Says:
September 19th, 2008 at 12:19 am
Funny you should mention that since we just built a Chicano lista on Alltop.com. If I missed a blog, please submit it or shoot me an email to let me know. We gather feeds so if I couldn’t find a feed, i regretfully had to leave it off.
- Sol