I created a simple web app (Mytipnetwork.com) that lets a blogger create a page where their readers can tip them off to interesting stories, images or clips that they find on the web.<p>example page
http://www.mytipnetwork.com/n.php?site=adtoferlnn<p>It works pretty simply you add a tipbox image to your page that tells you and your readers how many tips you've recieved today from them. And you can respond back by saying what you got tipped by(meaning heard for the first time and/or found interesting)<p>As a tool, what I thought it might achieve is help bloggers get inspired to their next blog post by their readers.<p>Problem is I don't have a blog, I don't have friends who are bloggers, and my only available currency towards promotion is time and energy.
"Problem is I don't have a blog, I don't have friends who are bloggers"<p>I think the first thing you would need to do is start a blog. It's the whole 'eat your own dogfood' thing. If you had a blog you could do linking agreements with other bloggers to spread the word, and you would be able to better test your service.
Feel free to post in their comments (when appropriate) and send them email. There's nothing wrong with being upfront about it. Just make sure that you're not in any way obnoxious about it and no one will mind.
<a href="http://shareit.com" rel="nofollow">http://shareit.com</a> consolidates submissions to social bookmarking.
<a href="http://mashable.com" rel="nofollow">http://mashable.com</a> is a popular web 2.0 news site.<p>Develop a "press release" and submit it to all the valley news sites you can... including here.