Phew. I think I’ll have a sit down and a mulled wine.

a) link to existing blogs, whose traffic software will flag up the new link – that’s how I discovered the wonderful Curmudgeon Joy

b) have influential mates like Norm who will (rightly) link to them (eg Clive Davis who I read daily)

c) leave a comment/link on a ‘known’ blog – and via David Farrar I’ve just found The G-Gnome Rides Out, a we’re-all-going-to-the-dogs-blog after my own wizened heart

http://theggnomeridesout.blogspot.com

“Galloway is a member of that section of the British public born between 1945 and 1955. Some call them ‘the luckiest generation'; I would call them the greediest. There are, of course, many exceptions to this observation – but as time passes the more easily my conclusion comes to mind.

They were mostly born in clean, brand-new NHS hospitals. Their parents never had to pay for healthcare. Mostly, they received excellent educations in selective grammar schools for no charge. They either went to university to gain a meaningful degree or learned a trade and could go straight into stable long-term employment. The state made no demands upon them to perform National Service. They rebelled against their parents, avidly embracing drug culture, sexual licence and the permissive society, sowing the seeds of the present pensions crisis by campaigning for the legalisation of abortion in 1967.”

Without one of those three full many a blogger will be born to blush unseen. But if they keep going, and they are any good, or say something people want to hear (especially if its not articulated in the MSM), people will get there eventually.

Yes, we’re back home here for the 42 nd installment of the Britblog Roundup. Many thanks to Natalie at Philobiblion for hosting while I was off gallivanting. The fact that it was hosted elsewhere meant that there were some interesting

New bloggers start here. It looks like Tim Spicer will soon need to ‘move on’ with yet another company name. Help him choose one. Greenpeace – the carbon condom. This, of course, is propaganda. Having people who work for the…

Content is still king. Either for the comments, or for the articles – once people come to your blog they have to have a reason to bookmark it or add it to their feed. If one is just writing a few lines linking to stories already out there in the media, what is the point exactly? TBH I wouldn’t bookmark that blog. I want original content dammit. Or at least a perspective/niche that not many others are covering.

Nosemonkey’s article was excellent though. In fact I need to write something about that when I get some time… hmmm..

But nobody seems to be making that push right now. At least not on any of the blogs I’m reading.

Depends, I see a few every so often. Plus, by your criteria, I’m a ‘new’ blog; started late September, but I just got on with it, the 4 blogs I read the most have linked to me in posts already, and the debates are fun.

I approve of the idea, but there are definately blog spheres out there that I’m not picking up on still, including stuff like Peter’s Apollo Project, that a nominal left-LibDem like me should probably be reading. But I do think the way to get yourself noticed is comment on other blogs and critique them using trackbacks; it’s working for me so far, and I’m not exactly trying that hard.

The Apollo Project blog (http://liberalism2010.blogspot.com/)started up on 29 July 2005 so I guess we are not elegible (unless you are flexible). I suppose too that you already know about us, because you have picked up on some of our posts on Lib Dem tax policy (we are Lib Dem modernisers, I think…)

We put together a monthly round up of good things on lib dem blogs – and the november top ten is out today.

All readers welcome…