> The only distinction i'm really getting between 'weblog' and
> 'journal' or 'diary' is that weblogs have links, and tend to be
> pithier. Is that others' understanding?

Also paragraphs v. sentences? Where does a weblog
start and a journal begin? Where, for example,
would scripting.com fall? Memepool? Slashdot?
Evhead? I've never liked the stock definition of
'weblogs' since the most interesting 'weblogs' I've
seen do not fall into the definition easily.

I'm not sure it even *needs* a definition unless
someone has to make an exclusive judgement on it,
so we seem to be asking whether we should making
an exclusive judgement on the topic and then
realizing that hey, it hasn't really been defined.

I'd be in favor of calling it the weblog user
group and then giving as broad a range of topics
as possible, possibly in so far as to redefine
weblog as something like:

"web publishing based on organizing content in
reverse chronological order and continually
adding new content to the top of the set"

This would include traditional weblogs as well
as journals and various other non-weblog weblogs.

-faisal