The Best Blog on the Internet?
It's the best magazine-related blogging on the whole Internet, according to the American Society of Magazine Editors! It's The Best Defense: Tom Ricks' Daily Take on National Security, at the website of Foreign Policy magazine. Unfortunately, Tom Ricks himself, who was twice on Pulitzer-winning teams in the 00s, was unable to get online yesterday to blog about it ("rare technical difficulties"). For me the most fascinating thing though about Best Defense is the commenters, who are apparently all current or former military? Also I'd love to see the financials on running such a site (Foreign Policy overall seems to have the same advertiser crowd as the D.C. Metro: Boeing, et al.) In any event, it's worth adding to your RSS and it's also worth noting as a data point that the award didn't exactly go to Cosmo or whatever.
Is it a "blog" if there's no embedded Gaga?
Some of those other winners are very surprising. "Billboard" for best design? I used to look at the "Billboard" site regularly. But with the new design, which has been in place for at least a year, i think, I find it completely confusing and very ugly and user-hostile.
Seeing as the Best Defense is a Good Offense, well, I know where I'll be cybersquatting for the foreseeable future.
That Bistro report is priceless. First: ""I hope this award breaks down the barriers for all the Jews that want to get into media," quipped Tablet Editor in Chief Alana Newhouse." Whaaaa?
Also: "The Interactive Tool award went to Men's Health.."
Leonora Epstein used to do a very nice blog with a charming and self-aware voice at Cosmo, and if she were still there, I think they might have been more competitive.
So I take it you've only ridden the blue line, then.