Seems like something is being made of comments Matt Drudge made on C-SPAN about blogs. He’s not a blog, he said. Sounds right. The Drudge Report is a pioneer. And then he went on criticizing the very word “blog,” as dismissive. I just listened to it. Sounds like he’s not dissing the bloggers, he’s actually paying them a compliment. You guys rising to the top of whatever the blogosphere is shouldn’t let yourselves be put in a corner kinda thing, he basically says. He defined it all as “Individuals on the Internet living out their dreams.” Pretty cool. And that’s what some of these folks are doing. People who wouldn’t have the voice they have in the world without this new media.

Of course, if peeps really got into too extensive a debate about the semantics of the blogosphere, I’d probably suggest a chill pill would be in order, but at any rate…the Drudge Report is an American institution, already earned a place in the Smithsonian and still going strong on this ever-growing world-wide web.