Personal Publication and Public Attention
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/personal_publication.html

Mortensen, Torill Elvira
Into the Blogosphere
2004

Abstract:

What makes weblogs a genre different from the autobiography, the diary, the researcher's journal or any other pre-Internet writing? While weblogs have many non-digital predecessors, blogs cannot live outside of the computer. They are ergodic texts (Aarseth 1997), and demand the assistance of technology in order to be created and used.