Blogs as Literature?

Steve Himmer in The Labyrinth Unbound attempts to analysis blogs as literature.
 First he explains that blogs have codes to understanding, just like novels.

The novel ... is defined as much in how readers are trained to enter its shared codes as it is by the specific delivery of those codes. Likewise, the weblog relies on particular codes enacted by both author and readers—readers who become, in this case, secondary authors.
Interactive writing, how novel!

 Unlike a novel in which the author’s interpretations are viewed through the lens of a character, or traditional journalism in which the author is purposely made invisible, writing on a weblog can only ever be read through the filter of the reader’s prior knowledge of the author. As one day’s posts build on points raised or refuted in a previous day’s, readers must actively engage the process of “discovering” the author.

This author discovery is one of the joys of reading good blogs. Besides learning on whatever topic the blog posts about, you slowly unwrap and discover what makes another tick. I have enjoyed this on little bit of finding the underlying author while learning about baking cookies or environmental degradation. 

Unlike a printed text, a blog "offers is multicultural, offering multiple paths for traversing the text. There is not single defined narrative route, as in Ulysses, but instead a variety of possible movements from each point in the work to any number of other points in the work. The text is reassembled—thus rewritten—through the interaction of author and reader with each performance."

And now for a barely related fascinating tidbit: "Raymond Queneau’s Cent Mille Milliards de poèmes, for example, is a collection of ten sonnets with each line of each poem printed on an individually manipulable strip of paper. Because each line of each sonnet poetically “fits” with every line of every other sonnet, there is a potential for producing and reading 1014 (100,000,000,000,000) individual poems. "

The interaction of blogs can be infinite and ever changing and ever expanding, never completed- almost a performance art, the process of making the blog literature is as valuable to enjoy as the the literature itself.

The weblog, as its detractors criticize, is often characterized by mundane, banal, sometimes embarrassing personal content ranging from what the author ate for lunch to specific health problems and sexual issues. This personal content, moreover, is frequently intermingled with commentary on politics or culture, making the personal, the public, and the political inseparable in precisely the ways the avant-garde demanded.

"Personal content intermingled with political commentary or cultural issues of the day"? That's never been seen on this blog.

With the analysed nature of blogs as lit, the ever-changing, never finished, interactive styles, it will be interesting to see how this literary style is taught in classrooms in 100 years.