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BlogLibel?
Wondered about this for a while: one of the benefits of the traditional publishing process is that other people get to glance over your worthy words before they get put out there, and if you say anything defamatory there's an inbuilt gatekeeper process delivered by an additional pair of eyes. (I will refrain from saying eyeballs.)

So blogroots has a fascinating post about Father Johansen, a Catholic priest who criticised Michael Rose's book on the Catholic Clergy. Blogroots links a whole bunch of useful resources, so I won't bother relinking, but the NRO article is a gem.

Johansen's blog is called an "Internet blogsite" which displays a unique lack of familarity with the lingua franca of the web. As does spelling Internet with a capital "I". Like it's brand spanking new: so new, we capitalise. But the best bit is where a blog is described as "a sort of running public diary published on the Internet". An accurate description, sure, but belies a how-do-I-write-about-this-stuff sensibility that had me questioning the rest of the article.