What’s the secret of succesful blogs?

This is a question I bet each and every one of us, active members of the blogosphere, would like to have an answer to. Here’s what Tyler Cowen (from Marginal Revolution), one of the most succesful bloggers indeed and one of my favourite econbloggers (that very intriguing new species that I also talked about in a previous post), gives as answer.
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The Economist’s 2006 Innovation Awards

I was mentioning in a previous post the Technology Quarterly section of the most recent Economist edition. In that same section The Economist is announcing this year’s innovation awards. Below the excerpts describing my favourites among the winners:

Computing and communications: Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström of Skype, for the development of internet file-sharing and telephony using peer-to-peer technology, which allows millions of computers to link up over the internet without central co-ordination.
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