I think it boils down to the users of the medium.
If for example a ‘religious person’ is used to using the internet to go to their church site where things are laid out differently, or they are participating in a specific use-thread; blogging may well be backwards to them at first.
Thats fine. The more the merrier, and all of us can cut newbies much needed slack.
Interestingly, the references in this post and the post above it refer to people that haven’t read the blogs mentioned with any regularity.
They are all defensive in nature.
I suspect in at least one case, they haven’t seen a blog before.

I don’t find reading a blog ‘work’ at all.
I find them easier to ‘contextualize’ than a website. But won’t most people judge the book by it’s cover?

To me the commenters in the post are like people who catch a phrase in a newscast and then call the station to protest. They didn’t hear/see the whole thing or heard what they wanted to hear and have to let you know it.:^)
98% of the time that’s cool, it’s the 2% that’ll get me every time. Blog on!