Why Blogging Is Still Fun

Still no real editors and no real rules. A collegehumor.com editor spills: 

And so my co-workers and I find ourselves paid to waste time based partly on our ability to guess what will be popular...It’s true: Without the benefit of a trusted formula, much of the work of picking content for the site boils down to instinct (read: guessing) mixed with analysis and a healthy dose of argument. To find oneself in a heated debate over what a young Jesus’s Facebook page would look like is odd. Odder still is to find yourself getting paid to argue over such things. Perhaps oddest of all is the degree to which arguments like this are taken very seriously. But with good reason.