I just spent twenty minutes trying to figure out the Talking Points Memo Cafe. Potentially it’s quite nice. Matthew Yglesias is now blogging there. There’s Elizabeth Warren, who writes stuff on the middle class family. Some good stuff there.
But it’s very confusing. How do you find your favorite author? Who are these other bloggers? How is this organized? I found posts by Ann Lamott last week, but can’t this morning. Where did she go?
I know all this diary stuff is in now, but it takes so much effort to learn about one blogger’s life and political viewpoint. This is just too much information.
Blogs must be quick gulps of info or eye candy. TMPcafe is too time intensive for me.
On the other hand, Blogrunner’s Annotated Times was very useful.
Apt. 11d 
Yeah, I have the same reaction. Plus the RSS feeds are excerpts instead of full post. Grrr. Been reading much less Yglesias since he moved.
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The Times site is a good idea and nice looking site, but…
1) I can’t find any references to the series on class, which I know that tons of bloggers have been discussing.
2) I can’t figure out how they’re selecting which blogs to include.
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So far, the only blogger at TPM Cafe I read is Ygelsias. I bookmarked him, and that’s it; my tentative efforts to explore more of the site have been more trouble than it’s worth, so far. But if Elizabeth Warren is over there, perhaps I ought to give them more time to get the kinks straightened out.
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Oh, and the link you provided last week still gets you Anne Lamott’s posts:
http://www.tpmcafe.com/author/annelamott
But if you didn’t know that, I don’t know how you’d ever find them.
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I don’t know how the Annotated Times chooses its feeds. I also tried to figure out who was included, but they don’t seem to have that information.
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