[identity] when blogs become news centres [2]

A few days back, I ran a post on blogs which are more like news centres. Here are three more I'd like to mention:

1. The Spectator - what is it, apart from very old and not having a bar of popular culture? The online version is quite bloglike in layout and yet it is a magazine. It's still quite prestigious:


2. The Register - what is it? A blog? Nope. A magazine? Possibly. A newspaper? No:


3. Scott, of Blue Contrarian. Certainly a three column blog but a most unbloglike blog, looking more like a magazine, through clever placement of photos, creating a four-column effect:


All of which raises the question - when is a blog a magazine or newspaper and if it is one of those, does it need more than one contributor? Is there a purpose to multiple-contributor sites? Who sets the parameters? How broad is their remit?