Luke and I are, I suppose, talking about the blogs grouped around Reynolds, K-Punk and Woebot, honourable mentions going to Heronbone, Peking O, my mate Daria Brit's shortlived Bodyparts, Penman, Somedisco, Eden, Paul Meme, Jim Clarke, Cozen, Tim Finney, Mark Sinker and, if I may, Citta Violenta. Collectively, these were much more than just music blogs: K-Punk was building a whole ideological apparatus, Scott absorbed the whole world in his charming and idiosycratic manner, Cozen simply wanted to construct the perfect sentence, Bodyparts was a condensed psychosexual odyssey, Peking O and Heronbone were both unclassifiable and utterly beautiful, etc. They all had real, distinct identities worked out and extended very quickly, and it was very new and ad hoc, there was no 'blog form' to get trapped by: Penman, in particular, stretched the thing as far as it could go. Pillbox and Heronbone and Peking O are probably the perfect examples of the blog taken to its limit, the full potential realised. I haven't come across one single blog that makes me exited to check it every few hours since the peak of those few. I realise this thread is actually more about music blogs, but apart from Matt and Simon's, I never really read those.
Having said that, Chantelle Fiddy was absolutely great, she's still going though, right, in some form?