Just in case anyone's checking this over the weekend . . .

LA Times has an article about weblogs which mentions some of the best known ones, e.g., "On the personal Web sites, bloggers post tidbits of commentary and host unfiltered public forums in which rumors fly, news is weighed and the blog-o-sphere's stars (known simply as Dave, Meg or Evan) are pondered."

Article also mentions academic work on weblogs at Annenberg, as well as themed weblogs like PopCultureJunkMail (note the crappy design).

The Annenberg site above refs another article in the Mercury News, "Internet weblogs offer alternative view of the news."

Metafilter refs Tony Pierce, who goes ballistic about the LA Times article above . . .