Via Jason Haley, Darren Rowse has a post up about receiving links and comments, and reciprocating. Fortunately I don't get so many links and comments that it's impossible to keep up with (unfortunately?). I will typically subscribe to the linker/commenter's blog if it's interesting, in fact, that's how I find a lot of great blogs. I often comment back, or link back, or comment on something else, because I realize that seeing those referrer links or comments helps you feel like you aren't talking into an echo chamber.
And I would be remiss if I didn't thank Jason, according to Google Analytics he's driving like 30% of my blog traffic lately. I use Jason's blog as kind of a barometer for what kind of quality I'm putting out there, because his links are generally the best stuff filtered from a day's worth of blogs. I think I had a streak this week of like 5 or 6 posts making into his link blog....guess I'm doing ok.
Thanks Jason!