Yesterday was both a day without blogging and a day without sunshine.

I missed weighing in yesterday on the vapid Richmond Times-Dispatch front-page-above-the-fold blogging story. Commonwealth Conservative, as usual, was on top of it, drafting off of One Man’s Trash, and River City Rapids had two rebuttals.

Over a year ago, and maybe two (I can’t find the link), award-winning T-D political reporter Pamela Stallsmith did a front page, below the fold story on political blogs. Maybe yesterday equal time was being given to less polished views on blogging. Blogs with less than stirring content deserve scrutiny, too, I guess.

At least we know that politically oriented blogs are read by at least one editorial writer for the RT-D and I know that several RT-D reporters also peruse them. Maybe they check out cat bloggers, too.

Last week at a business function I met a young woman who revealed that she had a blog. I went to it, as I have occasionally to other blogs of that generation, and found the focus on relationships and the shallow but hip anti-Bushism tossed in as if to validate bona fides. There’s a lesson in those blogs for advertisers and political strategists, but I’m not smart enough to figure out what it is.

Update: The Jaded JD accuses me of elitism based on this post and he has a point, considering the imprecise words I used. Let me just say in my defense that if were truly an elitist, I wouldn’t be reading all the blogs that I do, blogs of every stripe and persuasion, and I wouldn’t link to as many as I do. I’ve been blogging for longer than most of my Virginia blog colleagues and I’ve been as big a booster of blogging, for all purposes, as anyone.