Indisputably Good

This is not the freshest of news, far from it, but here is an interesting Big Money profile of one of the few indisputably outstanding financial bloggers out there, Felix Salmon. It's interesting not in a People Magazine way but in what it says about financial blogs, what they can, at their best, uniquely bring to the table, what kind of people write them and read them (mostly the same subset but not always):

And it is [Salmon's] mastery of the form—vectoring the facts and observations of others into his own opinionated but open-ended mini-essays—that amounts to his real expertise. Print and television journalism have their defining faces and voices. Salmon can lay claim to being the blogosphere’s signal personality despite his position in the traffic rankings.