Thanks to everyone who answered yesterday's question. After reading optionsScalper's response, I re-read the question. I should have left the second paragraph out, it did not help clarify what was on my mind ... it was more of a self gratifying mind-dump of various things floating around in my head ... sorry about that. What I am tying to figure out is what sort of role link blogs play in people's blog reading behavior, so here is the original question and my followup question:
Are links (link blogs) valuable for the community? What role do link blogs play for you?