building link popularity and pagerank in blogs

pretty much anyone with the google toolbar that's had a look at a few blogs has probably seen how high some of them can be with pagerank. since this is a brand new blog, I've basically been trying to do a bit of research into how it's accomplished.

I've stumbled into a few helpful dmoz categories so far: a list of blog directories you might want to submit to, a tech-blogs cat, and a personal blogs cat. I'll be submitting mine shortly- although I might wait until I have at least a few more entries.

beyond that, it seems like most of the incoming links seem to be just coming from other blogs- I figure I'll start a thread at the DigitalPoint Forums and try to find a few people willing to do some exchanges. again, though, I'm thinking I'll at least get a few more entries and wait for google to cache this so it's a bit more attractive to link to.

I suppose I could even turn this entry into a bit of self-promotion, too- if you're interested in doing some exchanges, just leave a comment.