Why should a weblogger bother?
You might as well ask: why do webloggers bother to blog? Or why do they bother to create and maintain a blogroll? Here is an attempt to briefly answer a question that several books have already been written about: Bloggers like to share with others (hence they blog). Bloggers like to share with others the list of other blogs and news sources that they like to read — blog rolls. Some bloggers even like to annotate their blogrolls with an asterisk “*” next to the names of folks that they have met. XFN is the logical next step. A way to annotate the links in a blogroll according to whether you have met the person (and thus know they really exist), whether you think of them as a friend (and thus imply a stronger recommendation for their site) etc. XFN is easy (just add rel=”met” to links to people you’ve met for starters), and helps you enrich what you’ve already built — no new languages or files needed. Edit your blogroll, type a few keystrokes, save/upload and you’ve joined the XHTML Fri
