[languagehacker]

That's an interesting perspective to maintain without any data to back it up. I click on links from blog to blog all the time. I read blogosphere-level conversations all the time. I also think it's worth bearing in mind that the leading crawlers know the context of a given set of links, and a bunch of links with minimal context all in the same div (e.g. "class='blogroll'") aren't even going to provide the kind of "link juice" a contextualized link in a large body of text would gain. So that's why a "links" section on a given post or as a page on a site provides minimal value to the recipients of those links.

If you want to complain about something, complain about the decline of contextualized discussion in the blogosphere. Oh wait 00 you can't, because that's not actually a problem.