We continue our interview with a blogger series today with Engadget Managing editor and Master of Snark, Ryan Block.

What's the best part about what you do?

Well, there's a certain buzz you can imagine getting from getting a gadget no one else has, or finding out about something before no one else knows and sharing that with others, or playing with toys long before they're released. But the work part doesn't occur in a vacuum -- there's this enormous amount of enthusiasm and energy that drives everything, that makes the whole system possible. I mean, the crew at Weblogs have this unbelievably intense fervor for what they're doing, it's what drives the machine. And I think I'm secretly most enamored with the cast of characters, it's such a menagerie of colorful personalities -- I highly recommend you sneak into a WIN dinner or meetup sometime. Trust me on this one.

When did you start blogging and why?

I was always more of a casual observer of the development of micropublishing / blogging than anything else. I dabbled, like in 99 I had this real non-sequitur of a site that bore some vague resemblance to an early moblog. But, if you can imagine, I was too broke to afford a digital camera (yeah, it was all scans of prints) so it totally missed the point, which was the immediacy of self-publishing online. I started an LJ back in 2000 when "blog" and "online diary" were kind of a synonymous concept, but ultimately I found it much easier to be fascinated with these massively plural online publishing platforms than with the kinds of content they were enabling. Not so long after I killed that I started playing with publishing short fiction on the web -- I think this was in 2002. By the time I started with Engadget I think all the elements were in place to blog the way I'd always really wanted.

When did you start working with Weblogs, Inc.?

I started in June of 2004 while I was working as a sysadmin for a CMS software company, incidentally. A year later at our first reader event in New York, someone asked the same question, and when I said I was quitting the next day to only do Engadget, everyone just started applauding and cheering. Surely enough the next day I quit my job, it felt so right. Sounds corny, but it was like living the dream.

How has it been working at WIN?

Well, it shouldn't be much of a surprise that things took a decided turn for the better once I was able to focus solely on the writing. I won't pretend there aren't some days it's hard rolling out of bed and getting to work, but anyone who knows me knows I'd be lying straight through my teeth if I didn't say it was the best job I've ever had. It's really hard to describe what it's like doing something you love, and basically doing it on your own terms. It's got a very addictive quality about it, perhaps because it's so hard to see the line between work and play. I don't think my eleven-year-old self would believe it if he found out what he's doing for a living later on in life.

What do you do when you're not blogging?

"Not blogging" ?