"These weblogs provide a valuable filtering function for their readers. The web has been, in effect, pre-surfed for them. Out of the myriad web pages slung through cyberspace, weblog editors pick out the most mind-boggling, the most stupid, the most compelling."

And this is why I think we need a new word, 'blog' or 'weblog' for instance, instead of the word 'journal' to describe blogs. They're different from straight ahead normal journals, or at least, they can be.

Participatory media, if you will.