1. Focused blogs and side trips

    Over on Eileen Flanagan’s Imperfect Serenity, there’s an interesting post on blog publicity, “Blogging dilemmas,” inspired in part by Robin M“‘s recent “How did you get here?” post. Both bring up interesting questions about the role of blogs in community building and the location of that line that separates good blogging from mere self-promotion and pandering.

    Readers will probably be unsurprised to learn that I use Technorati, Google Blog Search, etc., every day to keep track of the…