What's up in Africa? Pambazuka, a weekly social forum on injustice in Africa offers the curious reader a summary of very well written and thought-provoking blog posts from Africans. It amazes me how forthright and logical African writers tend to be. They have to be that way in the face of extremely troubling attitudes from us know-it-all Westerners.

As per a recent review policy, full reviews are being reserved for winners of MyBlogLog Sunday reviewees sending me the most traffic each week. Many years ago, Claire Pitt flooded the Pisstakers and this is her payback review of A little Piece of Me.

For the 5 funniest blog posts ever, check out this list. They are political, but hey, even politics can be funny. These posts also prove that most humor is actually cultural references presented in a clever way. They may therefore not be remotely funny if you are an Inuit making a living in the fast melting areas of the Northern hemisphere

Round 'em up is a post on Blog About Your Blog re summarising the best or most useful blog posts of your week ie creating a blog post around others' articles. If done correctly, the benefits are many for both sides of the equation, especially if useful anchor text is used. That touch of linking class requires a little bit of research on your part to find the bloggers' keywords, or if in doubt use the blog post title as the link text.

Round 'em up should therefore get the author plenty of interest from cow hands seeking a free ad worth 60 buckaroos.

Personally I don't like the work involved in rounding up best posts myself. I think bloggers should email me your best posts! Hint hint. I am lazy like that.



I am also a self pisstaker, as I am not really lazy - as you can tell from MyBlogLog Sunday. However I have insisted that lazy-ish bloggers who want a mini review should get out of bed early on a Sunday and actually show their faces on my site. 140 mini reviews later it isn't going too bad, but it isn't the heavenly two way mutual linking fest it could be. Many bloggers either don't bother to mention their mention, or they don't know to look on Technorati to see who is blogging about them.

New angle on MyBlogLog Sunday. This post has just given me another idea, actually. From now on, to increase the two-way benefits of MyBlogLog Sunday, if you want to be mini reviewed: When you time your visit to be included in the last 10 in the MBL widget. you should also leave a comment mentioning YOUR best post of the week.

Oh how sweet is that? So sweet I expect MBL Sunday will drop to 2 mini reviews per week of conscientious marketing-aware blogs! I guess I can live with that in the name of quality blogging.

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