A blog is a blog, not a bulletin board. Their definition is correct: a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer.
No matter the idiocy of the press, powerline is a blog. FR is a bulletin board. That is NOT the same thing as a blog.
The key points of the article is that CBS' Rather gets the sack because of the bloggers, foremost of which was buckhead on the Freerepublic. The Freerepublic is the standard for online commentary and opinion --it's fast, intuitive, informative, nothing compares and there're lots of wannabes. Everybody's talking about blogs and freepers.
What I'm saying is that either the public will add "freep" to the general vocabulary or the definition of the word "blog" will change. It happens. King James once said that Westminster Cathedral was "terrible, artificial, and awful." He was praising the cathedral. Now, we say 'terrific' for good and 'terrible' for bad. The same for artful/artificial and awesome/awful. Things change --we just have to get used to not getting used to it.
BTW, you got to really watch your step when ever you quote the King James Bible ;-).