First things first, I need to add one of the blogs run by one of the many people I met at BlogCon this past weekend, BatesLine. Michael Bates runs it out of Oklahoma.
Now, the tech note. Michael informed me that Google Chrome is now twigging blogs that use BlogRolling.com blogrolls as purveyors of malware. While I haven’t noticed any actual malware with either Internet Explorer or Firefox (and my suite of security software), I did notice that when one clicks a link off a BlogRolling roll, they put an ad at the top of the page. Therefore, I’ve decided to take down the Moronosphere and the Blogs4Bauer rolls because they use BlogRolling.com. I don’t know if I’ll bring back the B4B roll since “24” is no more, but when I get time, I’ll hard-code the Moronosphere roll and put it back up.
Here’s what is going on with those malware alerts, and what to do about it:
What Happened to BlogRolling?
Thanks. That’s why I’ve pulled the two BlogRolling rolls.
If the roll is one’s own, there is a way to create an OPML export file on their BR site. Even if one did not “own” that roll, an OPML file could be created with some “find-and-replace” action in a text editor of the HTML source.