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Rebecca had a lot of wisdom on business blogging contained on that scrap of paper... good starting reference.

Check out Lesley's post: OK, So We're Not A Blogosphere Full of 5-Year-Olds. We should all review our own behavior from time to time. Are we, as bloggers, part of the solution or just more of the problem?

He has a blog.

Blinq had been shuttered.

Funky.

I posted this yesterday at Susie's. I think it's worth a repost here.

First of all, just a point to some of the interesting points at the Bloggasm interview with Skippy the Bush Kangaroo about the debate of the size and scope of blogrolls on the supposed “A” list blogs:

as you may or may not know, google search hierarchy ranking depends in part upon the number of links to your stories and blog(s). with the severing of the link path between the more visible, successful blogs (atrios and dkos) and the median blogs such as my own, my left wing by maryscott o’connor, the booman tribune, the sideshow by avedon carol (i could go on and on), these bloggers in the upper eschalon (rhymes with eschaton) has effectively cut off the inter-connected support system of left, or liberal thought in cyberspace.

Links do matter, for purposes of Google searches, and that is the best reason that the top liberal/progressive blogs ought to have a blogroll that stretches the availability of active known bloggers that they appreciate, period. Google visibility is a major source of visibility for some bloggers, and Skippy is right, it benefits progressive political blogging in general by having as many bloggers as possible easily findable in the vast variety of search attempts on Google. On any particular subject search in Google, do you want more conservative or more liberal blogs found in the first page of results?

But… for everyday, current quality post blogging, nothing provides visibility as much as a reference post, with context, from a more popular blogger. And this happens at the larger bloggers from time to time. The real question is how to get those quality blog posts recently posted and most newsworthy to the attention of folks at Kos and Atrios. That’s where sites such as the The Blog Report at Salon and The Sideshow come in. Every day they highlight some of the more interesting or relevant recent blog and news posts. They generate visibility for the original blog poster, and in a perfect world, provide visibility to the largest blogs as well.

Maybe what is really needed are more of these kinds of sites. I’d really like to see the debate change from a discussion about blogrolls to a discussion of how can we make the blogging system efficiently lift quality posts, no matter where they come from, to a higher visibility. How do we keep the barrier low to entry for new bloggers - those with an interesting voice and a value to be read - so they can find their audience? How do we all make the system work better?

When you define people by their body parts, you get writing like this. I'm sure his buddies, Urethra Earl and Scrotum Horace and Cecum Charlie and, of course, Dick Sphincter think it's really funny. But don't pull his finger!

Agreed: ridiculous.

Except for me...

I have the makings of a blues song there, except there is nothing to be blue about: Melissa is now the Netroots Coordinator for John Edwards’ presidential campaign. Edwards is putting together quite a team of blog talent and experience for his campaign. Congrats Sis!