Lisa McCall, of Audubon, Penn., admits she's addicted – to online journaling, that is. McCall, the proud new mother of Angelina Faith, chronicled her pregnancy with Angelina beginning before she was even conceived. Her online journal, called A Princess and Her Pea (www.lisaandben.com/peapod), is a complete history of McCall's efforts to have another child after a devastating miscarriage in 2002.

In the process, McCall has been able to keep her extended family informed of every little detail of her pregnancy, has made new friends from around the country and is planning to keep the pregnancy/birth chronicle as a keepsake for Angelina.

"The main reason [the online journal was started] was to have a place to chronicle every little tidbit of my pregnancy," she says. "I wanted to remember it all. I am also a scrap booker, so once this pregnancy journal is finished, I will be printing it off and putting it into my baby's scrapbook for her to look at when she gets older."

McCall is one of a growing group of online journal keepers, officially known as Web loggers, or "bloggers" for short. Bloggers chronicle the day's events, both personal and not-so-personal, on Web sites that are updated frequently.

Although pregnancy bloggers, like McCall, are known primarily in the world of other pregnancy blog keepers, other bloggers have emerged on the national scene in political and journalistic circles. Remember Monica Lewinsky? She became a household name because of the efforts of a little-known blogger named Matt Drudge. They're both well-known now. Blogs were also responsible for revealing Trent Lott's past, resulting in his subsequent resignation as Senate Majority Leader.

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