NY Times confuses online forum for a blog

The Blog Herald blogged The New York Times, a company that should know better, has written that a New York Police Officer who has been allegedly sacked for postings made to an online forum, was sacked due to postings from a blog. In Complaint Is Filed by Fired Officer With Blog, author Kareem Fahim writes further in the article that a forum is a blog, a first here for the Blog Herald. The forum/ stroke blog referred to in the article can be viewed here.

The NYT article said

In a telephone interview yesterday, Mr. Polstein said he originally intended his Web site as a place to post his own personal complaints. Other officers learned about it, he said, and asked if their thoughts and complaints could be published there as well. The site expanded to include a forum, or blog, with a freewheeling dialogue on matters related to law enforcement.

The site does allow people that register the ability to post their own comments (so it clearly is an online forum), but it does not provide an RSS Feed, it does not support trackbacks, and although the main topic posts to have Permalinks, the individual comments do not. It clearly is an online forum, but it is not a blog.