Why, Exactly?

How do you create the anti-blog? Make a blog into a book.

It seems rather bizarre, but it has been done. Sarah Boxer, former Web critic at The New York Times, has written a book about blogs. In it, she selects her favorite blog posts from her favorite blogs and presents them in bound form. Capturing the essence of a blog, which is what Boxer says she is attempting to do, is a tall task and would seem to be quite difficult considering blogs feature links (like this one!), in addition to viciously sharp wit and superb writing (like you'll only find here!). Only two of those things fit into a blog book. Without the experience of reading the embedded link and reading the opinion about it, a blog book is just a book. And we've all got plenty of those.

This Newsweek article explains further. We'll hand them the baton from here.