Compatibility of Weblogs and ISSN

This is an interesting article by Joe Clark, not only about problems of ISSN registration for web logs, but about the validity of web logs as publications. An ISSN number is the number assigned to periodicals listed in an exhaustive encyclopedia used by libraries. Apparently, and I didn't know this, many web logs have ISSN registration. As of late, the registrars have been turning down registrations for various arbitrary and/or irrational reasons, and Joe's article examines this, while making the case that blogs really are publications -- it's just that now they're in the rabble's hands.