BlogRush, a free service that provided a means to network out blog postings to other sites with similar topics, has shut down.

John Reese started the service to helps sites like ours get more traffic. Although we certainly did see a small increase in traffic, our interest in the service here at TCR was in providing easy access for our readers to other resources on the internet that spoke to political topics.

While we certainly have other channels that provide access to the world of political debate, we’re disappointed to see John shut down BlogRush. He did not make any money at it, and wasn’t focused on that as much as providing a quality service. Evidently, the reasons for shutting down the service (found here) were related to issues[...]