Problogger has a series up now on 31 Days to Building a Better Blog, Plus some tips from readers. Worth a read to get a handle on marketing yourself in the blogosphere.
31 days to better blogging
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on Aug 7th, 2008 at 11:18 am
Unfortunately, that list is flawed from Day 1 — it assumes you already have commenters!