I'm surprised that they misused the term me as many of the writers - including the writer of that episode - are members of a huge discussion forum, "Outpost Gallifrey" and some of them are pretty blogsavvy. The show has also deliberately spun off websites since its restart in 2005 and one of the current characters - Martha Jones - has a blog on MySpace. I *think* that it is an 'official' blog though it's hard to be completely sure about this as it doesn't have the BBC's usual disclaimer. I'm guessing that the line of dialogue was a last minute addition and the director messed up - he's fairly oldschool and may never have been near a PC in his life. Bruce On 18/06/07, Derek McMillan <derekmcmillan1951@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

I think I overtrump Mary. I first watched Dr Who when it was William Hartnell. I think the writers were just trying to be "down with the kids" by mentioning blogging rather than knowing what they were talking about :)

I think blogging has been mentioned on Newsround a few times and of course the BBC news has mentioned it a few times - the US military trying to block soldiers from blogging for example because they were "using up valuable time" when they should be killing people and valuable bandwidth which would slow down their ability to kill people. Of course the fact some soldiers were not telling it like (the Pentagon thinks) it is was a factor too.

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