One of my favorite spots on washingtonpost.com is the blog directory. There you'll find the cob webs of the paper's site---all kinds of niche blogs, stale blogs, and this blog: "Friday Follies: Totally random polls."

Well, the Post is now thinking that its 90-odd blogs are just too much for one newspaper Web site.

Good thinkin'!

Check out the memo, post-jump.

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The belt keeps tightening around the newsroom budget of the Washington Post. Following a stretch that featured the killing of the Sunday Source and Book World, newsroom administration on Tuesday announced perhaps a bigger no-brainer: Staffers at the paper will no longer get paid extra for doing chats and blogs on washingtonpost.com.

Thus comes to a halt one of the industry's most luxurious gravy trains. Several years ago, when the Post started launching blogs like bottle rockets, a two-caste compensation system evolved. Big stars, like Marc Fisher and Joel Achenbach, got paid. Grunts on the Metro desk and elswhere didn't.

Longtime staffer Achenbach, writer of the Post’s Achenblog, told the Washington City Paper in 2006, “I get some compensation for the blog, and I certainly hope they have a system that’s fair to everyone.”

At that time, fairness would have required paying the nonstars for their blogging contributions, and the paper---even in those pre-worst-financial-crisis-since-whenever times---wasn't going to heave the sod to level this particular playing field. Nowadays, fairness at the Post is achieved the same way it's happening across the industry. By slashing everything, that is.

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I just lost a seriously linked, seriously considered, seriously serious blog post about the ice problem in D.C. Poof. Gone. It had a photo. It had actual quotes from an actual DPW spokesperson. It had a point. While you are busy not caring, check out Fuck You Penguin: A Blog Where I Tell Cute Animals What's What. It's so funny it made me cry over something other than my lost hour of blogging.

Ok, so maybe PC Mag's list of 100 best blogs by itself won't make you fat, but it might inspire you to spend an extra hour or two in front of your computer, perusing these great blogs. And that's time that you could (should?) spend on a treadmill, digging spandex out of your crack and willing undigested carbs to ooze out of your pores.

Because no one has time to incorporate 100 blogs into a Google reader, I tackled the list and picked a handful of really good blogs for you! Enjoy! (Click through for the truncated list, descriptions, and links).

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Two hundred and ten billion e-mails are sent each day.

There are more than 70 million blogs and 150 million Web sites today, expanding at a rate of approximately ten thousand an hour.

But are we really more informed? Are we getting a wider range of news?

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Dearest Readers,

Does Fuego/Frio leave you cold?

Have you found yourself wishing that Loose Lips meant something a little bawdier?

Is City Desk, for all its inimitable accomplishments, a bit...well, flaccid?

Then cower no longer 'neath the sterile quilt of sensual deprivation! The Sexist, our new sex & gender blog, is here to fulfill all your procreative blogging needs.

Helmed by the ever-scintillating Amanda Hess, The Sexist will cover such hot-button issues as "feminism, dating, STD testing, fearing children, G, L, B, T, fucking, and David Bowie," according to the inaugural post.

While you wait for that first Bowie interview, be sure to peruse Amanda's day-one offerings.

Let the sexy time begin!