It's raining blogs

I've been adding some new sites to my blogroll lately. It's been quite some time since I did it and things were starting to get stale. Since the blogroll pretty much serves as my bookmarks, now I have some new people to read. Today was a big one: nineteen new pages.

The best way to find blogs worthy of reading is to look through the links of another writer. You want to pick someone who's very intelligent, has a deep understanding of a wide range of topics, and has their finger on the pulse of the internet's greatest thinkers. But I picked Gnotalex of the Blog Québécois instead.

Looking through someone's blogroll is like sifting through their junk drawer. There are some treasures that are obviously worth saving, but also some stuff that you can't imagine why anyone would keep. I'm sure mine is no different. I looked at every link he had, and inconsistently applied an imprecise formula to them. No Michael Moore cheering or mindless Bush-bashing. But no Ann Coulter shrines or tirades against gay marriage either. Using the word 'rant' in the blog description is an immediate disqualification. Good design and frequent updates are a plus. Once-a-weekers and reporting only on the same-old-same-old are minuses. And I came out with nineteen.

So now I'm going to hit the new links on my page, magically summoning some of them here (through the magic of referrer link tracking) to find out who linked to them. Who will be first? Who's the most desperate blogger of the nineteen?

UPDATE: Unfortunately, the winner could not be determined. I was away for most of the afternoon yesterday and my tracker only stores the last 20 hits. Normally this would not be a problem, but Google has been sending me visitors by the truckload interested in spoilers for The Village. Next time...