I've been reading blogs since high school I guess. (Has it really been that long?!) I've never actually started a blog of my own, though. This is a nice article examining the potential dangers of blogging. I haven't ever really read any "personal" blogs though; they just don't really interest me. I've always been into interest blogs though, usually ones pertaining to celebrity gossip and politics. Here are a two blogs that are pretty good: The Sartorialist is a good fashion blog - it's one of an increasing number of "street fashion" blogs. I was going to do Go Fug Yourself for my other choice, but heebe jeebes already chose it! So I guess I'll just submit Defamer as my second. It's a good LA-based gossip blog. Something that's always interested me is how, despite how blogs frame themselves as being outside the mainstream media, more and more big newspapers are establishing blogs, and increasingly, blogging seems to be a stepping stone into bigger things. Look at Ana Marie Cox - she got $250,000 to write a book, and is now the Washington editor of time.com.