Hmm, one of the key points of the blogosphere is not that any one particular blog may or may not be good, or that individually one site might wield a lot of influence, it is that collectively blogs wield a lot of influence.  This is at its most effective when bloggers cooperate and interact, and I’ve been doing a fair bit of that recently, but committing the cardinal sin of collaborative blogging: failing to cross-link.

Apart from being really rather bad manners, it renders the whole scheme a little pointless if I go to all the effort of writing these posts and stuff like that and then fail to nudge you muppets in their general direction.  So here’s a general breakdown of the bits and pieces people kindly invited me to make a contribution to at the tail end of last year.

Slowcoustic Review of 2009 – Basically this is a review of the year where I get a little bit sidetracked and end up ranting about the irrelevance of the major labels and the rise of the DIY movement.

Sweeping the Nation UK Music Bloggers Poll – Simon has been a constant support not just for this blog for for the record label as well, and compiles  an annual UK bloggers’ best of the year list, and here is this year’s.

Saam from Faded Glamour has conducted a UK blogger’s album of the decade poll, and has posted the main countdown here, and then the individual top three lists by the participating bloggers are assembled here.

Finally, the Contrast Podcast’s Festive Fifty reaches its finale here, and Neil from Meursault and myself introduce William Henry Miller Pt.1.  Sadly, two songs from that Decemberists toss-fest made it on there, as well as one from The Allen Creature, but that’s the problem with democracy: none of us is as stupid as all of us.  Still – Withered Hand in the top three means there must be something fundamentally right with the list, so it must be forgiven its aberrations.