Comments on: JLP’s Weekly Roundup (Week of September 24, 2007)

By: Meg

Meg — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:51:34 +0000

I think 10 is a good number. More than that and I start skimming and only click a few. By the way, thanks for the mention!

By: JB

JB — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:41:39 +0000

I think around 10 is just right. I, personally, prefer links to interesting articles on smaller/growing PF blogs since I already have several of the larger PF blogs on my blog roll.

By: Moneymonk

Moneymonk — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:39:53 +0000

I agree, I think 10 is enough longer than that you might as well host a carnival

By: John G.

John G. — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 08:00:07 +0000

I think 10-15 links is good.

By: Aaron Stroud

Aaron Stroud — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:57:11 +0000

10-15 links is just about right. It only takes a few seconds to skim over the list to see if I’ve missed anything that looks interesting.

You’re right about the student loan bill not solving the problem of rapidly rising college costs. Unfortunately, that bill is one of the reasons costs keep outpacing inflation! When students have more money available for college, colleges respond in turn by raising their fees, tuition, and housing costs.

Most colleges are not conspiring to charge more, price increases happen naturally when customers have more money.

If students had fewer loan and grant options, they would shop around more and colleges would have to respond by running more efficiently or giving students a really good reason for paying more of their hard earned cash.

By: jb

jb — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:23:15 +0000

Fewer links is better – please filter out just the most worthy links for your readers.

Besides, if we wanted to read those blogs every week, we would be subscribed to them (and many of us already are, which makes the repetition less useful)