You'll probably find that you get a more positive overall response if you allow your readers to submit your posts to this, or any other, news site. People tend

You'll probably find that you get a more positive overall response if you allow your readers to submit your posts to this, or any other, news site. People tend to have a natural negative reaction to blog promotions by the blog's author or employees. Generally, if people like your blog they will subscribe to it and read the posts without needed to get the "feed" via some sort of social news site. This is less true if your site is very high-volume and somewhat less targeted (ala TechCrunch), where people then tend to rely more on someone else to filter out and submit the really good stuff. If every "loyal follower" with a blog posted all of their updates here, the value would probably become very diluted.