That’s circuitously related to why I don’t bother reading the Daily Koz, the Huffington Post, or even Josh Marshall’s spin off megablog, the TPM Cafe. To really get much out of reading a large group weblog community such as those, I’d have to know enough about the community overall to be able to sort the wheat from the chaff. Yet getting a sense of the whole community at even one of these blgging communities would require so large of a time commitment from me that I really find I lack the enthusiasm to start reading them regularly.

I think I’m pretty typical of blog consumers in that I prefer to just follow a few individual diaries which I’ve stumbled across and found good insight and careful wordcrafting from. Like, say, Occam’s Razor.

One tiny nit, however. Blogspot isn’t an aggregator–which I think is generally defined as a collector of highlights from other weblogs. It’s more of a blogging service provider. The movie analogy would be that blogspot is a multiplex while a good aggregator is an Ebert. Aggregators would be automated sites like Technorati or human-run reviews like DU’s Blog Box (my Ebert of choice).

–Bucky
a Brown Bag Blog