"word carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry:   
you must join your sentences smoothly"  
Anatole France   

Commentaries

Other people call these weblogs, but for the life of me I can't see what's wrong with a rather older term. The distinction between a (web)log and a commentary is quite clear: a log is meant to be a holder for events which need to be recorded to provide evidence of things that happened: "a record of performance, events, or day-to-day activities". A commentary is exactly that: a discourse on events, which can be a receptacle for both additional description and a pulling together of different views, by someone with their own view.

I accept that weblogs started out as a means of showing links with some comments (an annotated log, perhaps), but virtually every author has moved on from this.

Eventually there may be pure links here, but it's not the main purpose of the exercise. And the commentaries are stand-alone: I don't find the intermixing of topics particularly easy to read: rather better, in my view, to separate them.