As much as I adore my former employer, they’re way behind the curve on this article: Where to get started in the world of blogs.

That said, I think that Jane will appreciate the writer’s description of the word “blog”: It’s a nickname that suggests the sound made by sudden, spurt-like draining of one’s consciousness in regular wet chunks, not onto paper but into the Internet’s soupy sea.

I don’t understand is why this article needed to be written, given that a much more comprehensive and accurate “Blogging 101″ article was printed in the Times last April. What did Melanie McFarland (who also writes The Times’ Pop Fizz column, squarely aimed at The Stranger’s demographic) have to add the subject?