I'm pretty sure it's the AP that's to blame (though I'm not willing to give them $20 just to look at their Stylebook online). Once one of the major stylebooks says to use something silly, that's it: it doesn't matter that a "Web log" says access log to most people, or that a total of zero webloggers have ever referred to their output as a "Web log".

But in a way it's a good thing: anyone who doesn't do enough research to realize that they have to browbeat their editor into ignoring the stylebook is probably writing another variation on one of the same old themes that we've seen since the press first started writing about blogs, so the annoyance just reinforces the annoyance you'll get from the rest of the article, and lets you bail out even sooner.

Sorry but 'web log' is two words. Just
as web site and web developer are two words.
When web is used as an adjective describing
a noun, it's also lower case. If I say the
Internet or if I say the Web, then it becomes
a proper noun and is therefore capitalized.

So the key is that you don't glue an adjective
to a noun. Everyone is trying to glue the
adjective 'web' to all kinds of nouns, and you
just don't do that. Would you glue the adjective
purple to log and try to make it purplelog...?
I doubt it.

-RazorX