While neither words are mellifluous, the underlying concepts are similar.  I'm re-reading Robinson Crusoe, the novel published in 1719 by Daniel Defoe, who is described in the forward to my copy as having been a "pamphleteer," among other things. The novel itself reads a little like some weblogs I've come across (eighteenth-century diction aside), which led to consideration of the connections between pamphleteering and blogging.

Jon Katz, in a 1995 Wired 3.05 article, argues that the revolutionary pamphleteer Thomas Paine "made more noise in the information world than any messenger or pilgrim before or since." If Katz had written the same piece today, rather than in 1995, I suspect he would find strong parallels between Paine, a prolific publisher, whose pamphlet/essay Common Sense still resonates today, and aspects of the blogging phenomenon. In fact, Katz (and Thomas Paine) anticipated aspects of the current debate about blog content in this passage:

Paine once warned a Philadelphia newspaper editor about the distinction between editorial power and the freedom of the press. It was a caution neither the editor nor his increasingly wealthy and powerful successors took to heart: "If the freedom of the press is to be determined by the judgment of the printer of a Newspaper in preference to that of the people, who when they read will judge for themselves, then freedom is on a very sandy foundation."