Are you a good witch or a bad witch?

I was reminded of the IPDI conference from a while back (which was fantastic, for those of you who put it together), where blogs were all the rage. Seems like they still are.

However every panelist I heard referred to blogs in a monolithic manner, nothing little difference in the function of the various types of blogs out there. To even talk about political blogs there must be several different types. The campaign blog (classic example being Dean) is the most obvious and blatantly political. Then we see blogs put up by organizations, perhaps for their advocacy efforts. There are blogs that offer commentary, then those that just hammer opinion (the talk radio of blogs).

Much of the discussion was about the regulation of blogs (as mentioned on Kathie's Politech earlier today). Wow, bloggers sure know how to complain. But by not having distinguished between the different types of blogs the bitching was limited as far as how useful it is. Many concerns were voiced about blogs which served very different masters, but might be regulated in the same way. So I guess my question is when do we stop calling them all blogs? Then what do we call them?