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You should probably be reading Dennis the Peasant's guide to blogging, including the introduction to the introduction linked above, plus parts actual introduction, and parts one, two, and three. Not only is it funny, it's an insightful critique of blogging as a mechanism for thinking things through. I believe Grim's Hall violates every one of his rules, with the result that our traffic hangs around 185 hits a day.

It's possible to post informed, intelligent analysis and succeed as a blogger -- two examples of people who do are Winds of Change and The Belmont Club. Indeed, I'd like to think that almost anyone on the blogroll here is among the "good guys" who post up top stuff... nevertheless, a lot of people are doing just what he says, and it seems to pay off. I think he's hitting a lot of the reasons right on the head.

Second, you should definitely like The LawDog Files, to which I was kindly directed by Gwa45. There is some truly worthy storytelling going on over there. Any Southerner will appreciate the stories about folks moving in from Liberal states; but anyone at all should appreciate the story about poor Desmond. "Smarter, not harder," aye.