Can blogs have several parents?

October 10th, 2003 | by aobaoill |

Several people have noted a section in the latest Columbia Journalism review about blogging. Among the interesting bits and pieces was a claim that one online magazine, The Morning News, “is not a blog, insists Rosecrans Baldwin, the News’s twenty-six-year-old editor, since it uses different voices.” Which gels with one of the general characteristics of weblogs, but what about significant blog exceptions, such as SixApart’s weblog and the Volokh Conspiracy? The edges are blurred, and it is difficult to decide what is on one side of the line, what on the other….

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