It seems a widespread, multiblog effort is underway to promote Best of the Web 2009. Lots of great posts by writers and contributors talking about their work. Check it out.

I briefly considered posting a link to the Dachshund contest in the comment threads for all of these posts, but as I started to do it (I left maybe four comments), it started to feel crass and self-promoting, which was the opposite of my Dachshund contest goal. It's far more important to me to help strengthen a larger community and also contribute to systemic change than to call attention to my own shit. Sometimes there's a very fine line with this sort of thing.

Anyway.... buy Best of the Web, it's great.