It’s not me that Forbes has declared best, it’s LAist, which I contribute to. And technically it’s not LAist, it’s big daddy Gothamist, but I’m willing to think they meant LAist, really. If you want to get right down to it, my star turn as daily LAist contributor has waned as my new day job has waxed, so my part is just a shadow of a memory of fabulous stuff in our fair city (Jason, Adrienne, Lindsay, Jessica and others do the heavy lifting). Nevertheless, I feel appropriately Forbes-accoladed, as are many fellow Angelenos: litblog The Elegant Variation, of course; a project TEV’s Mark Sarvas helped spawn, the Litblog Coop; and LA Observed, whose commentary is both smart and fast.
I have to admit I haven’t spent the last couple of years dogging the Forbes best-o-the-web boards, but I have to think that the whole blog section is new while the rest has been a bit dormant. A literary best of is Doubletake Magazine, which I think died in 2003. It now directs to the url "elena.techsuperpowers.com," which is not at all Doubletake and doesn’t have a bit of achingly beautiful rural photography to calm your urban soul.
Finally, woe, woe unto the person who came up with any best of list that found no room for Daily Candy but included the Duct Tape marketing blog twice. Someone’s been worrying about the endtimes, eh?
