I was never linked by blogs that took part in Blogroll Amnesty Day". I never asked to be. And I really don't care that much about the "big boys of blogging" not linking to me. But the fact is, blog with lots of incoming links show up higher in Google searches. Putting together this blog is my small effort toward helping make sure the perspective of the de-linked can be heard.
Every incoming link, even to your own diary on a community blog, benefits the owner of the blog. Much the way people started rethinking whether they wanted to shop at WalMart, it's worth considering where you want to "spend" your links.
There's a list of prominent people--officeholders, candidates and others, who have posted diaries at Kos here. At some point, we need to start looking at that list to see who among those people we would like to start contacting, and, in a calm, intelligent manner, expressing our desire that they engage in some "netroots outreach" on sites that are run in a more "democratic" manner.