Expert Sitings: Elizabeth Spiers

OCTOBER 10, 2006

bloggingheads.tv
At Bloggingheads, Slate writer Mickey Kaus and evolutionary psychologist Robert Wright host an enjoyable online video debate about current events, politics, and whatever else strikes their fancy. It's like a version of CNN's now-defunct Crossfire, if Crossfire had actual intellectual requirements and terrible production values.

janegalt.net
"Asymmetrical Information," Economist staff writer Meghan McArdle's blog, covers economics, politics, and finance, and is one of the first blogs I started reading way back in 2000.

paul.kedrosky.com
"Infectious Greed," a technology-finance Web site written by venture capitalist and entrepreneur Paul Kedrosky, provides a well-written, broad survey of what's happening in the tech industry from the financier’s perspective.

reason.com/hitandrun
I'm a libertarian and a pop culture junkie. Reason magazine's "Hit and Run" blog serves up the latter in the vein of the former, in addition to the ongoing debates about the usual libertarian motifs, such as property rights and free trade.

 

Elizabeth Spiers is the editor and founder of DealBreaker.com, a Wall Street tabloid, and AboveTheLaw.com, a legal tabloid. She was formerly the editor-in-chief of mediabistro.com, a contributing writer at New York magazine, and the founding editor of Gawker.com.

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