No thanks.
Self promotion and blogpimping are two sides of the same coin.
You’re just jealous because Doug Giles was noted as a “hot conservative new media superman” by Politichicks and you weren’t:
I don’t follow the issue with blogpimping.
If someone has something relevant and worthwhile to say, why shouldn’t I be happy to go to their blog?
If its spam, let the mods remove it, and I doubt anyone would be enticed to go to the link. That’s fine. If its good, then great. I think we are well past the point of thinking that only card carrying journalists have something worthwile to add.