A question

When will we see the first published hardbound collection of an author's blog entries?

Diaries and epistolary collections already comprise a significant amount critical source material on our most famous authors. Many budding writers of our generation will probably have started on a blog or other similar format, which will become the next form of critical fodder. Stranger still, what if the books include reader comments?

Already, some of the bigger blogs could serve as fascinating records of our time. "The Selected Blog Entries of Andrew Sullivan," for instance, would certainly feature some of the letters from readers on the gay marriage amendment that he's posted the last couple of days. The vast majority of them are from disaffected and/or furious (former) Republicans. If Bush loses in ought-four, this could be seen as one of the major death knells. That just might be of interest to historians.

Imagine a blog that over time formed the basis of the next great novel. Or "The Complete LiveJournal Entries of the Next Stephen Malkmus." Weird shit, man, weird shit.