It's kind of interesting where blogging has headed nowadays. The most popular "blogs" nowadays are really just syndicated news services, or feeds from websites posting articles.
I guess the latter kind of is a blog, but really is a feed from something like the huffington post or TMS really a blog?
I guess what started out as a way to democratise content and news on the internet is just another content delivery method for large media companies.
It's hard to really pin what you would define as a blog, is it simply the delivery method that defines it or the content. Is content from a large organisation by multiple authors, which is proofread, edited etc really a blog?
I suppose it is, and in some way's it's better with content that is typically of a higher quality, but then getting most of our information from large news services is detrimental. Sure there are checks and balances, but content also has to tow the company line, then there are advertisers you can't piss off, etc etc.
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