This is a BLOG

A. According to this author where does the word blog come from?
The word blog comes from the term for Web log or Weblog. According to the author it came "In 1997 Jorn Barger, the keeper of Robot Wisdom, a Web site full of writings about James Joyce, artificial intelligence, and Judaism as racism (he's reputedly a racist himself), coined the word "Weblog." In 1999 Peter Merholz, the author of a Weblog called Peterme, split it in two like this—"We blog"—creating a word that could serve as either noun or verb. "Blog" was born."(Sarah Boxer)
B. Why might the writer object to a book about blogs? What is the difference between a blog and a book?
The writer was given the idea of writing a book about the anthology of the blogs. She explains it as a dreadful idea saying it was imposible to make one. So she started comparing the books and blogs. "Books are tight. Blogs are reckless. Books are slow. Blogs are fast. Books ask you to stay between their covers. Blogs invite you to stray. Books fret over copyright and libel. Blogs grab whatever they want with impunity—news, gossip, pictures, videos. Making a book out of bloggy material, if it could be done at all, would kill it, wouldn't it?"(Sarah Boxer)
C. How have blogs changes recently?
The author says that a blog is a journal or a log that you post on ineternet. Anyone who knows it can look for it or comment about it. Today there are more than 100 millions of blogs of all kinds like political blogs, confessional blogs etc.
D. Why might you read a blog rather than a book, or a magazine, or a newspaper?
I think that the difference from a book, newspaper or a, magazine is for the way of writing. I would read it because it is writing freely. There are no great words or perfect sentences, it is only how the author of the blog feels in writing. So you could enjoy reading a blog than a newpaper article.It is not a strict essay, its just free writing. As Sarah Boxer said, the books are tight and slow, instead the blogs are fast and reckless.
D. Is there reason to doubt the objectivity of a blog? Why? Why not?
Yes there is because you really dont know waht kind of person wrote the blog. For example, if the blog is written by a young student about World War II, there may be some flaws or not enough information. If the same topic is written by a retired soldier that participated in the war, or by a historian, it would be very different.
E. If you kept your own blog, what would you title it?
Great Tales and other Stories
F. Find three blogs that mention our summer reading
http://blog.timesunion.com/