Dee-vo-lution
I also notice lately that the original A-list generation are beginning to have less and less time to actually post to their weblogs, seeing as how they are too busy scoring book deals, speaking engagements, etc etc about blogging that take more time than actually doing the damn thing. I'm still not entirely sure, for example, what the motivation for Blogroots was besides a marketing tool for the book - really, it's just reskinned MeFi. And as a result I'm seeing less and less, shall we say, playfulness from the A-Team - witness Megnut's title line, which usually been something at least semi-clever but has now settled into the looks-good-to-the-suits "a weblog by Meg Hourihan." (That "a something" construction has always fascinated me - I've been mulling over stuff like "Bennington's, A Restaurant" for years. It seems such an odd way of phrasing it. Why not just "Bennington's Restaurant?") Maybe the first generation has used isself up and now we have to wait to see what the next will bring. For the lifeame, I have no idea what it is yet.