Blog meme: five people you'd like to blog with

Over at total information awareness I encountered a new blog meme: name five people you’d like to blog with. I interpret this as “name five people, living or dead, whose blogs you’d like to read and link to”; only a supreme egotist would expect mutual blogrolling from a superstar. Anyway, here are my five, avoiding the obvious choices like Einstein, Mark Twain and Ben Franklin:

Hopefully these choices are self-explanatory. My guiding principle is that of the 17th century English diarist, John Evelyn: Omnia explorate; meliora retinete (‘explore everything; keep the best’).

The blogs where I read about this said something about “tagging” other bloggers, but that seems inconsistent with the spirit of blogging. Memes spread if they deserve to. Let’s see if this one does. Your turn. (However, if I were tagging, I’d choose Terry, Alec Muffett, and Jonathan Schwartz.)