Give and ye shall receive. It's one thing for the NY Times to be insular, but I hope the majority of online writers / bloggers, most of whom are much smaller,

Give and ye shall receive. It's one thing for the NY Times to be insular, but I hope the majority of online writers / bloggers, most of whom are much smaller, appreciate that to get links and be found you need to give links and help your readers find other sites they may value.