NY TIMES WEBLOG STORY REAX: There’s an interesting thread over at Metafilter about today’s NYT blog story. Most of the commenters seem to think that the Times was trying to gin up some conflict (I love the Seinfeld catfight reference). One poster asks: “Did a political weblog that existed prior to September 2001 automatically turn into a war blog on the 11th?” To which another says: “Let’s ask Glenn Reynolds.”

Uh, okay. Well, this was a political weblog before September 11 (click here to see what I was writing about the first week in September; click here and scroll up to see what I was writing on 9/11), and most people seem to regard it as a “warblog” now, so I guess the answer is “yes, Rory, it did.” I’m not sure exactly how, but there are some more thoughts in this post. (Via Ken Layne).