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A blog that I don't read very often but love the premise of is Overheard in New York. It's written by anyone who has overhead something worth remarking on in the city. Incidentally, one entry reminded me of one of the issues in Laurie Mcneill's article. She mentions realizing that she had "brought my book culture values to bear on texts not meant to be read in this way". In the same way that Ebonics is not ungrammatical simply because it is not standard English, "cyberspeak" has its own rules. Perhaps more importantly, blogs don't just break the rules of the diary genre: they make new ones, and create a new genre in the process. I'm looking forward to talking about this is class.