Maybe I came late to the party, but I always saw "blogging" as "keeping an online journal which maybe some friends read and then you had a laugh with them about it over an [e-]beer". This then jumped, very quickly and without much preamble, to being "important online literature and/or political expression for which I will become rich and/or famous", and I was left kind of standing around thinking "what the fuck is wrong with you people?".

I just hope this whole thing will pass, people will continue to write about how some guy cut them off in traffic and then their friends will say "hell yeah" and the edgy news shows will move on to discussing the latest trend, like urethral USB connectors or something.