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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]

One problem with managing a bunch of print journalists is that when you fire them -- or cut their budget, or the size of their newspaper -- they are still journalists, prone to grumbling about whatever they consider unfair. At the Tribune Company, the grumblers have found an outlet in a blog, Tell Zell, that lets them rip into Sam Zell, the Chicago real estate mogul who took Tribune private last year for $8.2 billion. The blog, set up in May, is mainly an encyclopedia of gripes about cutbacks at The Los Angeles Times, though other Tribune papers, like The Chicago Tribune, The Orlando Sentinel and The Baltimore Sun, get their turns. One scoop last week was an unconfirmed list of about 100 people leaving The Times, either through buyouts or layoffs. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Dot Earth From Andrew C. Revkin's blog, nytimes.com/dotearth. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]