... and read Michael Bérubé. In fact, read everybody associated with Crooked Timber, for all I care. Michael has his dominant themes but wanders off-topic and riffs on pretty much everything. That's the way people expected bloggers to behave in the first place, but the ones I read think they're writing or something. I'm working on that particular issue myself ...
I once called Michael the Al Jackson, Jr. of blogging, but with all that wandering and riffing I'm thinkin' maybe Elvin Jones.
Jamais Cascio's Open the Future is my favorite "futurist" blog. Since I'm getting more involved in that world, I always appreciate Jamais' combination of imagination and level-headedness (the latter being in somewhat short supply in that, uh, universe.)
I get some cool NOLA music downloads from Home of the Groove. It's the place to go for that long-sought-after Prince La La track, and there's good b.g. stuff on the music, too.
Robin Hanson has a really interesting econ-meets-forecasting blog called Overcoming Bias. Dean Baker's beat is econ-reporting-sux plus a whole lot more (and he's one of the good guys).
And, for something completely different, there's Botox 4 the Brain. It's a Christianity vs. Transhumanism site I like to read - provocative and unusual. I'm agnostic about Transhumanism and pretty much "EC" on the Christianity (as in 'ethical Christian' but skeptical about the supernatural - and with a Jewish/Buddhist background, too). So I enjoy watching the clash of two perspectives that don't often intersect. It's a very smart and well-written site, besides.
Consider this my version of twitter's Follow Friday.
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