One of Jill Walker's ideas that I sort of struggled with was her claim that blogs could collectively function as a sort of hypertext--collaborating to form an authored work.

I personally think of the authorship question in blogs as stemming from the blogger/commentator relationship--the creation of a text that talks back (think Ong and Plato from the beginning of the year). Walker claims in Distributed Narrativethat "the story of a weblogger is described is [sic] by the story being told by several different narrators on their independent sites." She expands a bit more on this in the Feral article, discussing the blog-diarist Justin Hall, specifically her view that his blog could be read as a hypertext through many different lenses. For instance she claims that "I could choose to limit it by authorship, as Foucault suggests, in which case I would choose to look at everything Hall has written. Or I could choose to limit by the main character in the narrative, Justin Hall, in which case I would look at his girlfriends' blogs and other writings about him as well."