The blogroll is a human powered recommendation of blogs, so here’s my human power, aka organic intelligence, for you:
kottke.org
Jason Kottke, the urfather of blogging
Elizabeth Burnam
A writer by profession and a poet by nature
Scripting News
From Daver Winer, inventor of RSS
Julia Evans
Software developer from wonderful Montreal
Matt Mullenweg
Mister WordPress (that powers 30% of the web)
Ross Baker
A developer from the Midwest