I actually see blogs as remnants of what the Internet used to be. Especially in an age where click bait headlines, copy-paste and memes seems to be what drives most "media" outside of big dogs like the NYT.

Some of the most interesting sites I visit these days are blogs, written by people with a passion for what they do.

I am slowly on that track again, visiting Kottke and Daring Fireball like I used to. Got any recommendations?

The way I look at it, that internet still exists. The stuff worth reading is still found on blogs. The rest - twitter, facebook, reddit, et al - is mostly noise. The biggest change is finding the good blogs is even easier these days, thanks to the many many link aggregators. I was surprised how quickly the signal to noise tightened up when I filtered out any link from social networks and "professional" news sites.

There is a way to get that feeling back: http://www.wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/