I wasn't surprised to find that I hardly knew any of these blogs. And the ones that I did know - Slashdot and Kuro5hin aren't standard single-author blogs according to my understanding of the term - which says nothing about their quality or anything. I was most interested in their Australian blogs section, which was where they listed What's New Pussycat? This caught my eye because it was by an expat Aussie living in a northern country - in this case Scotland. I did find it very amusing and may keep reading it. I didn't try any other new ones from that, although I may later. I tend to be a little sceptical of lists like this which try to be definitive and all things to all people