Problem. Me. Part of.

Sonny raises a good point, and one that echoes a comment the Deutsche Welle radio reporter raised yesterday during our interview: to the uninitiated, a weblog seems like a strange, disorganized thing. It doesn’t read like a book or a newspaper, and unless you’re “in the flow” of the blog — reading it every once in a while, or “constantly” — it can be a disjointing experience to jump inside of.

This is mitigated somewhat by the fact that most blogs share a few common features: bite-sized “posts” displayed in reverse chronological order, links to comments and “trackback” (basically a notice on weblog A that a comment has appeared about it on weblog B), “permalinks” to each post (allowing just that story to be displayed, and thus linked to as a chunk of independent text). As such, if you can come to understand the format of one blog, you stand a good chance of other blogs making much more sense.