Best Blogs of 2010

From the savvy to the satirical, the eye-opening to the jaw-dropping, TIME makes its annual picks of the blogs we can't live without

The Awl

The Awl

Is it Gawker? No, even if it occasionally seems like it. The Awl is a project of onetime Gawker writers Alex Balk and Choire Sicha, who branched out from Nick Denton's mothership to found a blog with the motto "Be less stupid." The Awl eschews the celebrity roundups and blind items of Gawker while aiming for a more original take. The result is a mix of news, media critiques, videos and longer essays that, even when low brow, usually manages to present itself in a high-brow way. The Awl is little more than a year old, and we expect it to continue to find its voice.

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