Blogs: Distributed Documentaries of the Everyday

Miles points out that 'While the technical infrastructure of blogging is crucial to the genre, and has materially informed and defined many of the key aspects of blogging praxis, the blogs' governing discursive quality is the manner in which it is embodied within the life of its author. This is what brings blogs into the orbit of documentary, a connection which to date has probably been most strongly expressed in the recognized affinity between blogs and journalism.'