When Navel Gazing Gazes Upon Its Own Navel

Or something ridiculous like that.

Great. Now, the blogs have become high school, with cliques and cool kids and everything.

There's one thing to be said for blogrolling or having Blogs of Note on the rail of your site, but this whole "People" magazine approach to the blogsophere (or blogtopia or whatever) makes me feel as if the Heathers are running the show.

One thing that does strike me about reading the A-list is most of the bodies up there come from either a) a strong, well-trafficked poli-blog, b) previous prominence in the sci-fi/fantasy world (Neil Gaiman, Wil Wheaton) or c) a mish-mash of people who blog about other blogs or have had a career in the public eye before blogging (James Wolcott, Andrew Sullivan).

I think I'd like it better if there were different categories (personal, political, arts, sports, tech) instead of an e-celebrity model. What I see here is the akin to looking at a table at a school reunion. You recognize the names, but have little recall of who they are.