Leslie Walker of the WaPo takes us in the right direction: We need more words than merely "blogging"....

So let's stop leaning on "blog" as the only noun to describe every site published in the bloggy format -- with short entries displayed in reverse chronological order, in a narrow column running like a laundry chute straight down the home page.

The format is a great one for the web, compact and thorough, but to call all the different types of sites by the same is to do them all an injustice -- and confuse possible readers. It's a need that will be addressed in time, of course: no one invented the term "podcasting"; it simply appeared to fill a need.

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