Blogs are commonplace. Interesting narrative or fiction-based blogs are less so, but publishers are fast catching on to the fact that somewhere out on the internet is a growing and possibly lucrative mine of talent. Former blogs, such as the Baghdad Blog by the necessarily anonymous 'Salam Pax' and the rather less politically incendiary The World According to Mimi Smartypants have been available in mainstream book stores for several years.

Now there is a 'Blooker Prize' for books that have resulted from compiled and modified blogs and the winners for 2006 have recently been announced. See here: http://www.lulublookerprize.com/index.php for more information