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You should keep visiting MGoBlog because it is the best blog there is. Then, if you are still interested in more content, just get some other favorites to visit and quit being so whiny.
To be fair to you, your first two paragraphs make a little sense, organizing into active and inactive would probably be nice. But then your third paragraph hit and you lost a lot of credibility by for some reason threatening not to visit MGoBlog (?). I mean, your free to make suggestions, and you don't have to visit this site if you don't like it because the other Michigan blogs aren't organized, but if that's the reason you stop coming here I'm just going to be nice and say you're being foolish.
Because I asked a question about Google Reader? It is a consideration and not a threat. My argument makes valid points. I just want more efficiency.
but I'm sure Brian has a lot on his plate already.
Would be to submit a potential technical fix to do what you suggest. I'm not savvy enough to create such a thing, but your willingness to suggest something I hadn't thought of in terms of a dynamic list says you might be. Even a good-faith effort to suggest the means to develop a dynamic listing might have fended off some of the harsher replies.
There are tons of RSS readers out there and I'm sure there is some open-source RSS code that can be plugged into the Blogroll.
Take the data gathered from the RSS feed for all the blogs and order it by date of the most recent post.
If you want to get really fancy, you can track whether an mgoblog user has clicked on that link since it was updated and have unvisited blogs with new posts be set in bold for that user (same as Google Reader).
Now we just need someone with the time and inclination to do it.
See, I lack even the technical knowledge to prevent myself from double-posting!
a) complain about it openly and sound like a whiny turd.
b) e-mail Brian and make a friendly suggestion.
You chose letter "a."