In this week’s Scottish Roundup, Will P wrote:

Duncan… is still too modest (frustratingly so) to nominate his own posts when someone else is fronting the Roundup…

While I would like to boast about how awesome I am because of my modesty, the truth is that I never nominate any of my own posts for two reasons.

The first reason is just because of the way I nominate posts in general. During the week I read blogs using Google Reader, and I use the star feature to store posts that catch my eye. At the end of the week, I collect them all up and write the roundup or send my suggestions from there.

But because I do not subscribe to my blog’s feed, none of my own posts get starred. Besides, which posts of my own would I star? Which leads on to my next point.

I can never tell whether one of my own posts is going to be good. I have had my fingers burnt too often, writing what I thought would be awesomely popular crowd-pleasing posts only for many to sink like a brick in a pond.

This week, for instance, one of my posts has featured in the Britblog Roundup — for the first time in ages. When I saw this week’s Britblog Roundup appear on my Technorati watchlist, I thought I had a pretty good idea which post had made it.

I was certain that the featured post would be the one about the BBC. I was surprised to find out that it was actually the post about F1’s espionage malarkey. It also made James Higham’s excellent Blogfocus.

And there was me thinking that everybody just skipped the F1 posts! Goes to show what I know. And that’s the reason why I don’t nominate my own posts.

On a slightly related note, I am planning on resurrecting the ‘best of’ page. The page (which still exists in its old form here) always looked like a load of self-congratulatory wank, which is why I stopped updating it a year ago.

But those people that go around giving people tips on how to make loads of money by sitting on your arse blogging say it’s a good idea to draw attention to some of your older posts. Makes sense I guess, particularly since I often do not have the energy to blog as much as I used to.

These things take time though, as I will now have to try and remember or otherwise find out which of my posts have made it onto Britblog, Blogfocus and the like in the past year. But when I’m finished it will either appear in the sidebar or as a link at the top.