After this, this had been only a matter of time.

I saw it coming: DIE ZEIT now has a real weblog, powered by the german blogg.de service.
They seem not yet to have reached the ZEIT standards as far as content and design are concerned, far from it, their tool produces broken links, too.
Let's wait and see how this evolves, a blog of a group as brilliant as the ZEIT editorial staff indeed has the potential to become a true favorite.
Speculation: If they're having fun, they might advertise blogging in their paper.. and we might see hordes of german intellectuals invading blogspace! Good prospects.