I used to read The Economist on a regular basis as well, along with FP and FA. But over time, it has lost a lot of its appeal, being steadily replaced by blogging academics and research papers for me. All those mags serve a sort of middle ground between research and journalism, my reading habits have moved to a more polarized model.

I tried doing this for a while, but actually, it's hard work picking out blogs that do good writing, and thoughtful/incisive commentary.

Plus, when you find ones that do, they invariably only keep it up for a few months to a year because it's so much damn hard work to write and research well.

Much easier just to pluck an economist of the shelves at the bookstore than to continually refresh your rss feeds.

What interesting blogging academics do you read? Finding alternative sources online is still left to chance. I like reading the economist but it's not always available everywhere in my country (France).

Agreed, Economist is very well made. I don't read it every week, but maybe every second - usually when I'm flying and have the time.