While he’s awarding Kim Du Toit the ribbon for “America’s Worst Blogger”, Robert Farley offers an offhand explanation of what a blogger should be:

A decent blogger actually introduces new ideas; he does not simply confirm what you already believed but were too ashamed to verbalize.

We should print it on a mousepad and send it off to, well, more than a few bloggers I can think of. LGF and The Idiotarian Rottweiler should have it forcibly tattooed on their foreheads.

Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, and The Columbia Journalism Review. He’s been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more.