Confession time. I do not read many people’s personal blogs. This seems to be an oxymoron as I am part of the blogosphere. One I do read, however, is Jim Droste’s Fox Valley Pirate. I do tend to hold a certain reservation of snobbery against people who use content systems such as Blogger, which are controlled by a corporation instead of running off of an individual server. However, Jim’s does a number of things right. He has almost daily content, recurring themes, and a focused area interest. They are skills that even I should take a cue from. Before the great server crash of last week statistics showed that his blog pointed a couple of thousand referrals my way. So I’m returning the favor.