Okay, I read the list. I admit it. But I couldn't help wondering, aside from maybe five of those named (the Google nerds, Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates... who didn't warrant a place of his own in the list but was mentioned twice), most of them have no effect on my daily life.

You, for eggsample, have a far greater effect than those on the list. I read TechCrunch and occasionally link to it but I'm not looking forward to Arrington's next post.

And I almost certainly won't be thinking about what he wrote for the rest of the day (or night as the case may be) as I will Julie's most recent two posts.

So maybe Time magazine was write after all.

Ugh. Time magazine was RIGHT after all. It's getting latte. I can't spel anymore.

Jim, I'll choose to interpret your remark regarding the Gazette's "effect" as a compliment, ambiguous though it might be; the same term can be applied to, say, Ex-Lax. But my experience and feelings about the subject mirror yours. I had to double-check just now to recall whether I even had Instapundit blogrolled (and I don't have Powerline on the roll), and I can't remember the last time I visited Prof. Reynolds's site. Excellent as it is, I'm much more interested in what's going on in the lives and minds of those bloggers with whom I've formed some personal relationships (even if we've never met in person).

And, by the way, regardless of how you conjugate it, Time was write. ;-)

[raising hand] Guilty as charged. I'm so out of the loop...