[GOP_Proud]

< Namely, a blog is an online opinion posted for discussion, and not a web 'journal'. >

Au contraire. I think this article is the first to "get" the distinction between blog and website. It's nice to finally see something reported correctly.

[expat_panama]

Words –especially new words- are fluid. I've searched blogs and forums for what could replace the Freerepublic, (and I've looked) ----there ain't nottin'.  That's why I'd say it's not the Freerepublic becoming a blog, it's ' blog' becoming the Freerepublic.