When is a blog not a blog?
What is the difference between a journal and a weblog? According to "Women and Children Last", LiveJournal, Blogger, and such are journals. Weblogs are "frequently modified webpages containing individual entries displayed in reverse chronological sequence." By frequently modified, I assume they mean updated. LiveJournal blogs are updated, as long as the blogger is active. LiveJournal displays in reverse chronological order too. By eliminating these blog hosting sites, they automatically eliminated places where many females blog. Isn't this pretty much setting the study up to find predominantly male bloggers? I suppose that's more a question for empirical research class.
The earliest examples of blogs were predominantly links to other sites. Then they started to shift to encompass more of the bloggers opinions and personal thoughts (I'm trying to track more of the specifics of this down for my class project). I suppose when tackling a study like this one needs to come up with classifications for blogs, the filter blog, the k-log...it seems kind of limiting though; what would they do if they found a blog that did a little of each of those? I just don't like seeing blogs getting classified and sorted, especially in a broad survey like this one.