I just found this article titled Meet Joe Blog: Why are more and more people getting their news from amateur websites called blogs? by Time magazine book critic (and author of the new computer-games thriller Codex) Lev Grossman.
It lists the hottest blogs. Lap it up while it lasts — before the article slips into Time’s subscription archives.
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Leonard Witt is the Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair in Communication at Kennesaw State University and the chief blogger of PJNet. His academic interests include public and citizen journalism and how to get citizens' voices heard. He has spent most of his professional career as an award-winning journalist.