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Blogging about blogging is like gossip: reprehensible but irresistable. Alas, this blog is powerless to resist.

What should blogs be? A way for readers to become accustomed to a mind. Hence those with a good mind behind them rise to the top naturally. Worthwhile examples are here, here, here and here. The reader will note that these are not personal diaries -- they contain observations about the world, stated more or less objectively, with some weight behind them, and good starting points to further research. We are privileged to be reading these, and it would not surprise this blog if the authors eventually tire or must move on. I wish I could pay them.

But if you are looking for the archetype, the blog that has perfected the form, the blog that approximates Ted Williams swing, look no further. The new sidebar with quick, bite-size entries is brilliantly simple.

Inspired by this, which has more thoughts on the matter.