safire on blogging

I expect that the New York Times article Blog (reg. req'd), by William Safire, will earn its author a number of emails hoping to help him expand his definition a little:

Blog is a shortening of Web log. It is a Web site belonging to some average but opinionated Joe or Josie who keeps what used to be called a ''commonplace book'' -- a collection of clippings, musings and other things like journal entries that strike one's fancy or titillate one's curiosity. What makes this online daybook different from the commonplace book is that this form of personal noodling or diary-writing is on the Internet, with links that take the reader around the world in pursuit of more about a topic.

I know I'm tempted to send one off to him. There is no such thing as an "average Joe or Josie," which is what makes weblogs such compelling reading.