"Blogging is not writing..."

"It's just graffiti with punctuation," said Dr. Ian Sussman (Elliott Gould) to Alan Krumwiede (Jude Law) in "Contagion."

Great line.

It also touches on a question that I asked a writing group (but got no answer)--why is blogging considered publishing?

Publishing has the aspect of approval by a third party--the editor or publisher. In fact, this third party approval is the basis of public relations.

If we can all just say we are awesome, what does it mean?