You are my hero. Thanks for reading and I’m glad you’re enjoying it!

I have done the same with bloggers who have bloged about news stories in our small swedish web science journal. Budget for such is 0 for marketing so bloggers who links something they liked is important.

It has a personal prize of some sort to allways contact when you notice a blog post so long periods I dont do it (so much other stuff to do – little time / small budget). But this usually works good and do not creep people out. It has focus on giving something back on a personal level and show a human face.

1. I read the blog.

2. I email if possible.

3. I say thanks. I explain that our budget is 0 so bloggers like you is important.

4. I tell about specific projects I have done to thank the bloggosphere in big (for example one site about using free picture, one about fact checking and a couple of more).

5. I give some examples of stuff I like with their blog. Like a blog post I feelt had a good point.

6. I make a suggestion in a positive way. Not something they have written that I feel is bad. More like a tips on finding a good picture + that they can have Blogger.com comment form under blog posts and such.

7. I suggest some similar articles on the same subject we have or other sites.

Good luck with your blog and Twitter-customer!

PS
I have only read 3 posts yet but your blog is quite good!