Regarding mergers, I think "Karma-nouto" has a good ring to it. But as a matter of grand stragegy, I'm opposed to mergers: they make the sphere less robust. I noticed that over the last year quite a number of top-line people learned the art of linking. Omo did it even before my crusade, and Zyl was particularly effective in the last couple of months, and these are just immediately apparent ones (I don't include SDB because he didn't have to "learn" anything — he carried the proper technique over from his previous life). Forming a cloud of blogs is the way to go. I appreciate DS's humour though, especially at the start of the list.

UPDATE: OMO MAKES me LOL on Sunday:

Author has it backwards. It’s Ani-BURN not Karma-nouto. I mean, seriously, one is actually cool (in a STRAIGHT FROM JAPAN sort of way), where as the other is the biggest bunch of self-referential act of hypocrisy ever. And can be easily confused as some Death Note slash.

Also, he has a picture.