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In all seriousness...I subscribe to a couple of link blogs. Larkware and Geek Notes, and you. I don't consider you a "link blog" though in the purest sense of the idea. I love your disassembly stuff, and if you start playing with F# I'd love to hear about that as well. You're a very talented developer, and a talented linkblogger as well. I rely on your ability to process more blogs than I can and then point me to some good ones. At that you do a great job.

I recently had many hundres of blogs I subscribed to, and often would just skim through the aggregator and not gain any real value. I come to your links (or larkwares) and yeah, maybe half the time or more there was links to blogs I already subscribed to, but I may have missed it due to information overload. Now that I've cut way back on my subscriptions, I am going to be relying on linkblogs a lot more to point me at interesting stuff that I'm not going to see otherwise because they just aren't on my blogroll anymore.

You know as well as anyone that a lot of blogs have one really good post in 10. Or in my case, maybe one in 100. I rely on the linkbloggers to tell me when that 1 post is up so I can go read it. Maybe that's selfish of me, but that's how linkblogs play a role for me.

I say, if you are marking what looks interesting while you're on the train anyway, keep sharing it with us. If you feel like you aren't providing enough "content" to the "conversation" then pick one that you feel you can add to, and write a retort, or an affirmation, or a tangent, whatever. And continue to mix in stuff that you are working on like the disassembly project.

Either way...a lot of us really appreciate what you are doing.

>>What role do link blogs play for you?<<

You do the legwork so I don't have to. Plain and simple. It's a heck of a time-saving benefit for me.

I agree with Jim wholeheartedly. It saves me a massive amount of time. I look at the articles that you and Scott Gunderloy point to first. I speed-read the rest of the articles that my aggregator picks up.. My guess is that the amount of effort that link blogs are saving me is 1/2 - 1 hour per day. Multiply that by the number of people subscribing to you and other link blogs... That's value.