Blogging is getting so hip and trendy that between Mohammed Al Fayed's new blog and the blog Jeffrey Archer started writing this summer, Jackie Danicki wonders if she really wants to call herself a blogger anymore...

I guess it used to be sort of a radical thing to do, in the early days of the blogosphere it was certainly hell bent on tearing down the walls blocking genuine conversation, be they corporate, government or media imposed, but with politicians hijacking blogging conferences, and an inflation in VIP bloggers using blogs as an outlet for speechifying or assuring the world about their VIP status, it doesn't have quite the same radical twang to it.

(NB: radical as in revolutionary, not denoting a political colour)