- Wired - The Blogging Revolution - Andrew Sullivan argues that weblogs are to words what Napster was to music.
- news.com - The coming of the blogs - Weblogs are good places for marketers to observe and learn from the public.
- FOXNews.com - Blogging Into the Big Time - A new New York newspaper grew out of a one-man website.
- International Herald Tribune - Adieu, editors? - Blogging as a form of publishing may do away with editors (and objectivity) altogether.
- MISCmedia.com: Log - It's Better Than Bad, It's Good - Clark Humphrey's introduction to Weblogs, and suggested started points.
- I Blog, Therefore I Am (BBC) - Reports on the phenomenon of blogging.
- The Register - 'Blogosphere' to reach 10 million, almost all dead - Article reports on a survey which suggests that blogging is a fad.
- The Register - Most bloggers 'are teenage girls' - Reports on a survey which found that 62 per cent of Polish blogs are written by women and three quarters are written by teenagers or younger.
- The Register - Google to fix blog noise problem - Google, after its acquisition of Blogger, is likely to set up a separate search tab for blogs, thereby removing blogs from the general search results.
- Perseus - The Blogging Iceberg - Results and analyses of a survey of blogs on eight leading blog-hosting services.
- msnbc.com - Business pros flock to Weblogs - Online diaries create new form of journalism.
- editorandpublisher.com - Blogrolling On a River - Blogging has gone mainstream.
- Wired News: The Web the Way It Was - Leander Kahney writes, "In a sign that content is once again king, one of the Web's earliest and most interesting publishing activities - weblogging - appears to be undergoing a huge surge in popularity."
- Salon Technology - Fear of Links - Historical interest article. Scott Rosenberg writes, "While professional journalists turn up their noses, weblog pioneers invent a new, personal way to organize the Web's chaos."
- NYTimes.com - Online Digests Help Readers Cope With Information Avalanche - Andy Wang writes about pioneers in news blogging. [Free nytimes.com registration needed to view this article.]
- PR Studies: Social History of Blogs - Article from Leeds Business School & Centre for Public Relations. Asserts that weblogs are a return to the way the web was once envisioned: a way for the masses to create, edit and view content with little training required.
- Columbia Journalism Review - A Brief History of Weblogs - Mallory Jensen discusses how blogs went from being a very minor presence to a major fad/movement.
- UserLand.Com: The History of Weblogs - Dave Winer gives early examples of blogs and points to early news articles about them.
- Weblogs: A History and Perspective - Rebecca Blood, an early blogger, describes the rise of blogging.
- WriteTheWeb: The State of the Blog - Email interview with WriteTheWeb. Evan Williams, his company Pyra, and its product Blogger, have come a long way in the last two years.
- AskMen.com - Weblogs - Feature article explaning how weblogs came about being an Internet phenomenon.
- I'm Blogging This: A Closer Look at Why People Blog - Academic research paper (with many references) based on interviews with bloggers, text analysis of blog posts, and quantitative analysis of posts and blogs. Also addresses the history of blogging and makes suggestions how to improve blogging systems and
- The Function of Language to Facilitate and Maintain Social Networks in Research Weblogs - Stephanie Nilsson authors a study which attempts to identify the structure of the weblogging community and to determine if a separate variety of language exists in the weblogging community. [320 KB pdf file]
- Shirky: Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality - Clay Shirky's writings. Discusses the phenomenon of a few weblogs having a majority of the visitors.
- Syllabus.com - Blogs: A Disruptive Technology Coming of Age? - Discusses the growth of blogging as it has become easier to do so.
- Blogging Thoughts: Personal Publication as an Online Research Tool - Jill Walker and Torill Mortensen's scholarly paper about their personal use of weblogs in research. This is a chapter from Researching ICTs in Context, ed. Andrew Morrison, 2002. [875 KB pdf document]
- Bridging the Gap: A Genre Analysis of Weblogs - Indiana University LIS students' research paper presents the results of a content analysis of 203 randomly-selected weblogs. [620 KB pdf document]
- Clickz.com - Paid Subscription Blogging, Part 1 - "Will people pay to read a blog? Can bloggers successfully charge subscription fees? Can their publishing switch from free to fee?" Part one of a two-part series.
- Clickz.com - Paid Subscription Blogging, Part 2 - Can bloggers successfully charge subscription fees? Professional bloggers weigh in. Part two of a two-part series.
- Fast Company: All the News That's Fit to Blog - News does not need to be confined to newspapers nowadays. Those people in the know are writing and publishing news as it happens.
- MercuryNews.com - Election results humble bloggers - Bloggers posted early exit numbers suggesting Kerry would become president of the US.
- Online Journal Review - Influence peddling in the blogosphere - Article asks what ethical standards should bloggers follow when offered payments or freebies for buzz?
- InformationWeek - The Weblog Question - Article by John Foley. Employees who write about where they work need to consider the questions of, "Who owns the content?" and "Will my employer object?"
- Wired News: Porn Blogs Manipulate Google - Article describes a scheme whereby a company set up a few dozen cross-linked, porn-themed Blogspot blogs (powered by Blogger), all of which link to three of its for-profit porn sites.
- Knowledge@Wharton - Blogs, Everyone? Weblogs Are Here to Stay, but Where Are They Headed? - Discusses trends in the world of blogs. [Requires free registration]
- BBC News - Global voices speak through blogs - A blogging project, "Global Voices," aims to bring together global blogs and their stories in ways that mainstream media do not.
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