sagevogue
Different feel from the algorithmically optimised posts that dominate the topic, and a stop at sagevogue reinforced that human touch, you can tell when a site is being run by someone who reads what they publish versus someone just hitting submit and moving on quickly to the next assignment without checking the result.
thrashurge
Now placing this in the small category of sites whose updates I would actually want to know about, and a stop at thrashurge confirmed that placement, the difference between sites I want to follow and sites I just consume from is real and this one has crossed into the active follow category from the casual consumption side.