"Political Blogs -- Craze or Convention?" is the question raised in a Hansard Society report that landed on my doormat this morning.

The authors asked a "citizen jury" to monitor eight political blogs for a month -- and then discuss whether they felt the blogs enhanced their sense of involvement in the political process.

While recognising the potential of blogs as a "new media resource that can increase the transparency and accessibility of parliamentarians," the report's conclusions will make rather disappointing reading for the e-vangelists:

"The vast majority of jurors said that they would not return to the blog they were monitoring. More worrying still, not a single juror felt that his or her political participation and awareness had been enhanced by the blogs."