I mean professional blogs for the most part, not Tumblelogs. Otherwise I wouldn’t be here. Tumblr is where I go to catch up with people I would probably like in real life. It’s different - sort of the essence of personal blogging, distilled.

I read Gawker because it’s a habit, since 2006 or so. I now occasionally read the Awl, but have a hypersensitive tl;dr trigger where that blog is concerned (even though, yes, I have definitely written a number of tl;dr posts of my own in the past). Every now and then I read Mediaite, where they are good at spotting interesting stuff but not always good at giving a unique and consistently appealing voice to their posts.

When I was blogging for Village Voice Media, I had absolutely no interest in any of True Crime Report’s sister blogs, including Deadline Hollywood Daily (which has since changed corporate ownership). I can’t even recall the names of some of those sites off the top of my head. I rarely read any Gawker Media blogs outside of the flagship site. I’ll read a Mashable or Techcrunch post, but only if a site I regularly visit directs me there.

I have no use for TMZ. As for the little blog empire Dan Abrams clearly intends to build by adding Geekosystem to his Mediaite stable - I took a look at Geekosystem; not interested. I never read Huffington Post if I can help it.

Here’s the thing though - it’s not them, it’s me. Or is it?

Am I just becoming an old dude, set in my web-bound ways? I could completely buy that.

Or is it that most blogs really aren’t all that interesting? I mean seriously: how many times can one read the same kind of deliberately counterintuitive, masturbatory post by some NYC media-obsessed j-school dropout before it just seems like so much mental noise? For that matter, how many posts by a media-obsessed 42-year-old man who fell into a writing career through a complete fluke can one read before they all sound the same? When I write for MediaElites I try very hard to write something I’d want to read, and sometimes I even succeed. But not always.

Am I just burned out on the Web as a medium through which I receive my daily dose of information? I was half-joking with the “not them, it’s me” crack above, but only half.

I don’t know. I’m like the agnostic who keeps going to church at the moment, hoping his faith will return. Maybe I’ll change my mind and really immerse myself in sites outside of my habitual reads again.

But I am only getting older. In some respects I am perfectly comfortable with being a tad set in my ways.

We shall see.