Is it adorably naive?

Or infuriatingly faux-ignorant? From the London Times:

WHAT, actually, is a blog? Simple enough question, which turns out not to have a simple answer.

Blog is short for weblog, so blogs are logs of the web? Well, yes, they were when they started, and there remain excellent traditional weblogs in the US. Arts and Letters Daily is an example. It gathers up articles that you just might want to read.

Weblogs developed in two ways. One was as logs of people’s lives, the second as political columns or magazines. These columns combine logs of the web (gathering articles and providing critiques of them) with additional comment and argument. The best have become very influential.

In the US Andrew Sullivan’s blog has become so well read that it has the capacity to drive political debate. Mickey Kaus’s blog helped to depose the Editor of The New York Times. Both now have financial support from big media groups.

In this country the “blogosphere” is growing. Try to see a blog grow into a major political publication. Watch Oliver Kamm torment those on the left he thinks employ sloppy logic, or try Clive Davis, who is adept at identifying interesting material on the web.

Or there is the ultimate political geek’s experience — bloggers broadcasting from their bedrooms.