" Bloggers blog for a host of reasons, but what sets blogging apart as a literary form is that it offers a writer an easy way to document his or her responses to their day-to-day reading. The constant flow of text through the eye and mind is a characteristic of many people's lives, but it has never been possible before to capture the experience so thoroughly and with such immediacy as it can be through blogging. Diaries come closest, but they're private, and I'd argue that they place more distance between the act of reading and the act of writing about reading.
The reactive, or parasitical, quality of blogging defined the form from the start. Blogs, after all, began as logs, chronological catalogues of what web surfers discovered in their daily perambulations around the internet. Many of the most accomplished and venerable bloggers continue to write in this form.
The least interesting blogs are the ones that simply replicate existing journalistic forms such as news articles, company profiles or product reviews. They can be very useful, and they can certainly be very popular, but they're blogs in a technical sense only."
· Nicholas Carr argumenta que el mostrar diarios personales de forma abierta, inmediata y de forma tan amplia es el principal mérito del Blogging.
La replicación de los medios periodísticos existentes en la Blogosfera, por contra, es útil pero no son realmente Blogs....
El formato Blog debe disociarse al máximo de los medios de difusión habituales, por tanto....?
