Acid-tongued editrix
My friend Michael M. Thomas, the author and former Observer columnist, was an early practitioner, but I didn't really get into religious blog reading until Snoodles introduced me to the brilliant Gawker.com.
However, with the exception of that, Lockhart Steele and a couple of others, most blogs seem to be written by self-absorbed, gibbering baboons who obviously never leave the confines of their Dumbo studios.
Gawker is perhaps above the fold because its acid-tongued editrix Elizabeth Spiers does actually get out and socialize. We met her at a recent booze-up thrown by our Page Six colleague Chris Wilson at Ocean's 21 and she wasn't even attached to an iPod.
In fact, she had a distinctly Southern Gothic Donna Tartt-ish air about her, not what you'd expect from an online entrepreneur at all. But I digress.
