"When celebrities blog! Arianna Huffington's new project combines new-media buzz with Hollywood liberal glitz. But will it be "Star Wars" -- or "Ishtar"?" by Farhad Manjoo today in Salon at
http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2005/05/10/huffington_post/index1.html :
"...In interviews, Huffington has described her site as a kind of dinner party, where hundreds of people are talking about dozens of subjects.... Today, though, the best blogs succeed on narrower grounds. You go to Daily Kos for its obsessive interest with lefty politics.... The Huffington Post is, by comparison, hard to figure out. ....Why should you read it, and.... Most important: Why would you go back?
"One thing that works well with politically oriented sites is the sense of outrage: We gotta do something now!" says Ken Layne, a longtime blogger who now writes at the new Sploid, the Gawker Media tabloid-news blog that has fashioned itself after the Drudge Report.... "On Daily Kos or WorldNetDaily there's this sense, 'Jesus Christ the world's ending now and we know whose fault it is!'""