about the top blogger Personally, I think Beeline (a Russian telecom company) paid him off. I even know one chubby LiveJournal user who’s involved in various shady dealings with telecom companies around the topic of "social networks." Of course, that chubby blogger is stringing them along and squeezing money out of them for nothing. But if they’re paying for it, then clearly they’re вполне capable of "funding the blogosphere." Well, let them fund it if they want, but making it personal and harassing milonga was out of line. And there’s a poll on the subject here.