Cool points are hereby awarded to StumbleUpon . Think of it as a mid-point between del.icio.us and Digg , with a great social element. Here's why winners use it: It's fun, and the toolbar is actually useful. It's easy to integrate into your blogging/surfing habits. It connects your blog to a larger community. The 'Stumble Effect' is arguably better, and far less painful than the 'Digg Effect' (traffic over time as opposed to all at once) The friend/contact mechanism makes much more sense than, say, MyBlogLog 's. You get ME as a buddy. (This clearly should have been #1) The Basics and More The Basics: There's really not much to using StumbleUpon (I like this). There's a toolbar you'll use to find, vote on and review new pages, and there's your profile page which includes a mini-blog that catalogs your Stumble activity. The Toolbar: The main functions of the toolbar are the "Stumble" button, which takes you to various websites...

Dosh Dosh - A Very Simple Method to Increase your RSS Subscribers & MyBloglog community members. The idea is that instead of pointing your comment name-link to your blog, use your RSS feed or MyBlogLog community page instead. Cool points awarded. ChrisG - Are You Burning Blog Bridges? Some people (NOT ME) are fond of using a snarky, snide, and otherwise smartass-y writing style. While this may get you some short-term attention and link-baitage reward, you could be hurting yourself in the long run. A good reminder for those of us (NOT ME) who's mouths and fingers get us into trouble a little too often. Kumiko - AGLOCO Will Not Make Money Online! Ever! While it is indeed possible that AGLOCO will fail to deliver, this is the most wrong-headed analysis I've seen yet. I like all the exclamation points, though; that's passion.

1. You genuinely want to connect with other bloggers. 2. You genuinely want to connect with well known, popular bloggers. So you can spam the hell out of them. 3. Your hit counter says "0" and you want it to stop doing that. 4. You want to find out how many bloggers are actually sexist pigs sexy chicks in bikinis. 5. You want to witness the link-spam fiesta that is the comment section at any blog of sufficient popularity. (No Akismet for you!) 6. You want a long list of "Admirers" who have never seen your blog but somehow want to be your buddy. (Contact collection as a meta-game. Go ahead and cry.) 7. You cleverly understand the decoy-value of MyBlogLog, as the spammers and hangers-on swarm to your unmoderated MBL presence under the illusion that you and your community are more "accessible" there. 8. Your blog is an island nowhere near as lively as Gilligan's. 9. You want the cool outbound-link tracking function. 10. Tracking, schmacking. Did you kn...