The Philadelphia Inquirer takes a creative look at blogs by highlighting Scrappleface, a US satire blog that has done very well for itself.
I enjoyed this article. Lots of mentions, a leisurely look, and someone who wouldn’t know a weblog if they tripped over one, will be tempted to check ‘em out.

Mainstream media critics sniff that blogs lack the fact-checking apparatus of newspapers and television journalism (not that this helped the Times).

Bloggers reply that their commentary is essentially self-correcting. Let a blogger get a fact wrong and readers immediately fire off a barrage of e-mails. It’s easy to fix errors, because blogs are constantly updated during the day.

Some blogs amuse, some annoy, and some are lifeless as lint. Some attract a dozen daily visitors, and others thousands. (Ott, who began ScrappleFace in July 2002, has logged 1.35 million visitors since installing a tracker in September.)

But big or small, every blog begins the same way.

Somebody gets an urge to share his or her thoughts about war or baseball, Rottweilers or Ashton Kutcher, quilting, kumquats, anything at all.

Speaking of sharing, have you been over to relapsed catholic today? Spiffy.