Blogging and building community

I thought I would highlight a class blog: Australia. This blog includes links to fellow bloggers on the same topic. You can find fellow bloggers probably easiest by using google and doing searches on your blog theme with the additional keyword 'blog'. Once you have a good list of fellow bloggers, start following their blogs, comment on their blogs etc. This will help create community on your blog by drawing those bloggers back to your site. If you include sitemeter on your site you will see the referrer URL of your visitors, this indicates whether you have been 'linked' from these sites. Its good blog etiquette to link to blogs that link to your blog etc.

Edit: Adding Living with the Military, another good example.