Favorite Weblogs

A friend of Greg Mankiw's asks him for advice:

Greg Mankiw's Blog: Favorite Blogs: A econ professor friend of mine emails me some comments on this blog, as well as a request to its readers:

I now think of the blog, including the comments, as the equivalent of a bunch of people with common interests sitting down in a coffee shop and discussing topical economic issues, with the discussion topics chosen by you. I see this as very valuable. Many of us live in places where it's hard to find a group of people with whom to regularly and frequently have such discussions. Yours is the first blog I've read regularly. But of the trillion or so other blogs out there, there must be a few good ones that serve this function as well. I'm wondering which are the better ones....Would you entertain the idea of posting a new item at your blog asking your regular readers for recommendations on what other blogs they regularly read, and why they like them?...

My current top 20 weblogs by attention, according to NetNewsWire:

1. Political Animal: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/
2. Talking Points Memo: http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/
3. Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal: http://delong.typepad.com/
4. Economist's View: http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/
5. Crooked Timber: http://crookedtimber.org
6. Marginal Revolution: http://www.marginalrevolution.com/
7. MaxSpeak, You Listen!: http://maxspeak.org/
8. TPMCafe - Matthew Yglesias: http://www.tpmcafe.com/flexinode/list/6
9. Greg Mankiw's Blog: http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com
10. Boing Boing Blog: http://www.boingboing.net/
11. The Washington Note: http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/
12. Infectious Greed: http://paul.kedrosky.com/
13. Discourse.net: http://www.discourse.net/
14. NYT > Business: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/business/index.html
15. Daniel Gross: http://www.danielgross.net
16. TPMCafe - The Coffee House: http://www.tpmcafe.com/flexinode/list/1
17. Brad Setser's Web Log: http://www.rgemonitor.com/blog/setser
18. Daniel W. Drezner: http://www.danieldrezner.com/blog/
19. WSJ.com: Washington Wire: http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire
20. Making Light: http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/

No, no matter how hard I try, I can't get myself to pay more attention to my own weblog than to Political Animal or Talking Points Memo