I don’t mind the headline hyperbole of Ultimate Blogs, but the subtitle Masterworks from the Wild Web drives me up a tree. As others have noted, the book removes all sense of linking from the blog posts collected within, and in doing so removes the “wild” from these texts altogether — there is no chance of the unexpected redirections, spontaneity, or dynamism that makes the web itself, and makes the blog an interesting (to me) medium. A book of blog posts is about as wild as a desktop Zen garden. It looks good, but all it really does is make you miss the real thing.