But as blogging has expanded, that simple idea has been so much modified that it is now difficult to get two bloggers to agree on what the term means. Many blogs are online diaries chronicling activities and events as they happen to the writer, often with no reference to the Web at all. Some writers create only brief entries, while others provide extended essays on life, the universe and everything. As the pool of blog writers has grown, perhaps inevitably so have complaints about quality. It's true that some bloggers seem to feel the need to log every sneeze.
Bloggers add their own foraging notes to links discovered on other weblogs.
As a result, some estimate, anything new on the Web will filter through the blog system in some form in about 30 days. All rights reserved. Page created 24 March 2001.