This roundup of 18 New York blogs by the Village Voice is pretty excellent. I knew most of them obviously, as I am a professional Internet-dwelling moron, but you may not regularly visit some Awl long-time faves like Emdashes and Art Fag City and Jeremiah's Vanishing New York and New York Shitty-and obviously those crazies at Animal. There are also blogs I've never even heard of, like the Lo-Down, which is a newspaper for the Lower East Side run by a former CNN executive producer. (I'd probably never heard of it since it seems to get about 2000 unique visitors a month?) And, most impressive, this absurdly detailed, majorly obsessive blog devoted to our alleged Second Avenue Subway. My advice: you can ignore the Voice's funny and entertaining if crazy and defensive and weird ("To this day, we hear enthusiasts celebrating the imminent demise of the MSM"! And: "So maybe the blog boosters merely dreamed too big"!) opening mini-essay (though well-intentioned, alanically, such a piece really belongs on some crank's blog) and skip to the good stuff.

Gawker Headquarters Seating Chart

The lovely Gawker Media office in NoLIta, the headquarters of the well-known weblog company, is something to see! But who sits where? And more importantly, what percentage of their open plan seating is editorial? That would be: 25%. And what percentage are "subletters," you ask? Yes: 25% as well.