See: http://blog.openfirst.org/ for the FIRST Blogs community thing I’m working on (that this poll hints of). It’s an attempt to get the blogs from the assorted FIRST Blogginng rings local to services like Live Journal, Xanga, etc. and the independent blogs all going to one place filled with FIRST-y goodness.
Sure, I’d read 'em.
Yet more space taken up on my bookmarks toolbar. 
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I should also add, that if you want a custom icon showing up pass that on in the e-mail to be added to the list (what I’ve been doing so far is taking people’s names and looking them up on CD and using the profile pictures if I don’t see a suitably sized one on their blog itself; but if you want something different, let me know when you fire off the e-mail to be listed).