A piece I guess I have to cut out from a paper I’m trying to finish:
Weblogs serve many purposes. Like a pen could be used to write a diary, a novel, a letter to a friend, or just a shopping list pinned to a fridge door, weblogging tools can be used in a variety of ways. For instance, they can provide a venue for self-expression, serve as a community space or be used to publish formal corporate news.
That was my reaction on the whole “weblog as a genre” discussion. Do you study “pen as a genre”?
See also: blog research issues
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Update:
Of course my commenters are right – I stretched it too far (not the quote, but the commentary ;). Weblog is not a pen, but blogging software is.
Still you don’t study all what is written with a pen as a single genre (at least according to my not professional understanding of what genre is :)
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