Changes at Hot Air (UPDATE: It’s Captain Ed?!)

Well, this is a fine how do ya do.

Bryan Preston is leaving Hot Air and have taken the job as a producer with Laura Ingraham’s show, which is one of the coolest gigs I can imagine having. There’ll be announcing the new blogger tomorrow morning and Patterico, whose already done a guest-blog stint there a time or two says it’s not him. He’s looking for guesses.

I’d put my money on someone like Gateway Pundit or See-Dubya, full-time. Hot Air has always seemed to be a two-man blogging team with Allahpundit holding down the role as the sardonically-humorous one and Bryan as the one who brought the more direct opinions. I don’t know that the setup would work as well with two folks douing the humor, which to me leaves out Jeff Goldstein or Ace or Iowahawk.

I can tell you this. It’s definitely not me. I’d love the gig and would work the heck out of it. It’d be a ton of fun, but I’m far, far from the radar on big-time blogging.

UPDATE: Whoa! The new blogger is Ed Morrissey, who already has a wildly popular blog and a regular blog radio gig. Not that Ed’s not a good blogger, but I was rather hoping that Michelle would find someone who was good but who wasn’t already a major-league blogger. According to Michelle’s post, Ed will be shutting down Captain’s Quarters and blogging at Hot Air full-time.

I don’t see that as a particularly good thing. I like having more voices in more places. It seems that as the days pass, the active and readable bloggers are concentrating themselves into tighter group blogs. That may be fine as far as “one-stop shopping” goes, but it does homogenize style and I’m not convinced that’s healthy.