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.