"It's weird, is all," wrote a blogger at dailykos.com, a political Web journal.

Indeed, there is little that a paper journal does for you that a Web journal could not do better.

Now that blogs, or Web journals, influence just about everything from politics to technology news, they are starting to transform the once clubby design community.

Check to see if I address your concern in my Web journal.

The purpose of my column, my Web journal, my e-mail messages to readers and my very presence here is to open a window.

For the last decade, these Web journals have offered writers a way to amplify their voices and engage with friends and readers.

Frustrated, Mr. Broback posted an entry on his Web journal about the experience.

The public editor's column appears at least twice monthly in this section, and his Web journal can be found at nytimes.com/danielokrent.

I've reprinted the memo that announced the committee's formation on my Web journal (posting No. 40).

Blogs - or Web journals - are also more about monologue than discussion.