Amy Gahran offers some good advice on growing your blog’s audience through strategic commenting.
Here are the steps and strategies that Amy identifies:

Identify the target audience for your blog.
Find 3-5 other blogs that cover similar content; read these blogs regularly and pay special attention to the comments to each post. Take note of the individuals […]

In trying to understand the growth and impact of new media, I like comparing where my own knowledge and typical technology use stands today with where it stood, say, one year ago.
Then …
One year ago, I didn’t subscribe to podcasts or use RSS feeds in any meaningful way. In very late 2004 or very early […]