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WHEN bloggers emerged from the Web's primordial ooze in 1999, many simply posted articles of the type that had long been inkjetted onto paper, quill-penned on parchment or chiseled in stone. Suburban bloggers, though, spawned a subgenre of narratives about diaper changing, neighbor trouble, temporary traffic snags and other subjects rarely considered worthy of publication in previous eras. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

While amateur writers push the margins of the suburban blogosphere, professional journalists are blogging right back. Many of the region's daily newspapers have begun publishing blogs on their Web sites, featuring items that might otherwise be lost on the cutting room floor, but which can provide good fodder for reader dialogue. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]