Some interesting goings on these days in the blog publishing space, what with Vallewag getting a new look and editor, Jason Calacanis leaving AOL and an ongoing dustup between the folks who brought us Gizmodo and Engadget. In the latest round, Jason links to the diary of a rat, which chronicles the competition in the online celebrity space and also the mostly unseemly sniping going on between these two guys.
My take after reading through all this? We need a better way of measuring traffic and numbers to blogs, as well as the measurement of influence. You can slice these numbers sixteen different ways to Sunday and still not have agreement.