Prompted by blogger Daniel Bennett, I just took a look at See Also – a BBC blog that collects together the “best of the web, including comment, newspaper editorials and analysis”. It’s fairly mainstream media focused, but does pick up a bit of individual blogger comment too, on issues of the day: yesterday’s looked at Obama’s cancellation of the moon mission, for example.
Got the feeling it’s a ploy to bump up those end-of-year “we referred N million visitors to commercial websites” stats. Who’s really going to read that blog?
That seems likely… At least there don’t seem to be any nofollows in here (see: http://www.malcolmcoles.co.uk/blog/bbc-hoodwinks-bloggers-over-links/)