I happen to like Jason Kottke's blog for the same reason I like Boing Boing and MetaFilter - it's a gathering point on the web for interesting links I wouldn't find on my own (for the most part). Kottke recently decided to make a go of blogging full-time and held a fund drive to raise a portion of the day job salary he was abandoning. He has a sort of funny, sort of illuminating post up on the results.