Blog: More on building community

Many bloggers write posts that essentially 'comment' on other bloggers' posts. What do you achieve by this ? You are showing another blogger you are interested in what he / she has to say, and you have additional insight to add. This should draw that blogger to your site, thus adding more to your community etc. So how do you do this ?

Go to a blogger search engine, i.e. technorati.com Key in a search term that is related to your blog (if you are a Yankees blogger, yankees should work, a desperate housewives blogger would key in "desperate housewives" ("" are needed for a phrase)). The results are results of the most recent entries of blogs around the blogosphere that have included the keyword(s) you are looking for. Find something interesting ... and "blog it" (i.e. write an entry that includes a direct link to the post you are writing about).