Here’s a big cheer for a relatively new entrant into the blogosphere, Marc Andreesen and blog.pmarca.com. His relatively old-school approach to his site is awesome — all too rare from someone with an industry resume as big as his. The reason he is the cat’s pajamas, however, is that so far he has been posting, exclusively, deeply-reasoned essays — much more the style of blog you see in niche domains, not something that often gets applied to overall industry observation by bloggers with busy day (and night) jobs. Great to see it, I know lots of folks are rightly impressed. He spurs a deeper level of discussion, agreement or disagreement aside — what this thing is really all about, though sometimes we forget. Some highlights from week 1:

• the things you may know about VCs but don’t want to really admit to yourself, here here and here
• on personal productivity, nice change-up from heady investment talk
• on web 2.0, and bubbles, from someone who’s been there — we agree web 2.0 is more about getting into the groove of what web 1.0 really is (I’ve had various takes on this, including this devil’s advocate argument)
• his rich assessment of Facebook, though I debate some of it (as I’ve written, I think the API is way more compelling over time than having your app built into someone else’s (Facebook’s) product, and this is where it gets a bit closer to Marc’s other thing, Ning).

Nice work, anxious to see how it all moves forward.