Blogosphere- A mutual admiration community?

Yes... and it blooms best when the admiration is not only mutual but also whole-hearted, sincere and without any expectations.

I think that it is; at least, that is the way I feel about most other blogs and bloggers.

I think that it is because people do what they do because they do it. This, of course, is circular reasoning but it does explain a lot. When I worked for a large corporation, I hoped that my clients would give me a '5' (the best score possible) when the Survey Department would call them. Thus, when Survey Departments from other corporations would call me, then I would tend to give the employee involved a '5' (or whatever the best score was in their survey).

As a blogger, I am a member of Indiblogger.in and Expat-Blog.com. I read a tremendous number of posts and, whenever possible, write favourable comments at the post, and click on the AdSense ads (if there are any), in the hope that others would do the same for me.

When I do Google searches, I sometimes search specifically for blogs on that topic.

I never did any of these before I became a blogger. 

May be yes... may be no.

Arent all blogger forums the same?