- Wikipedia: Blog
Overview and definition of a weblog or blog, online publications in the form of a log or journal. Discusses blogs' history, their impact on culture, common blogging terms, and the many types of blogs.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
- Weblogs: A History and Perspective
September 2000 essay by Rebecca Blood.
www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html
- Who's There? Seth Godin's Incomplete Guide to Blogs and the New Web
Ebook about how blogs and blogging are altering our consumption of information, and how your blog can change your organization and your ideas. In PDF format.
sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2005/09/whos_there_the_.html
- Shirky: Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality
From Clay Shirky's writings about Internet economics and culture, media and community, and open source.
shirky.com/writings/powerlaw_weblog.html
- Blogging as a Form of Journalism
Article from the Online Journalism Review by J.D. Lasica arguing that blogs offer a vital, creative outlet for alternative voices.
www.ojr.org/ojr/workplace/1017958873.php
- Blogging Phenomenon: An Overview and Theoretical Consideration
Final term paper by James M. Branum that investigates the phenomenon of blogging on the Internet and examines its strengths and weaknesses.
www.ajy.net/jmb/blogphenomenon.htm
- Into the Blogosphere
Online, edited collection from the University of Minnesota that explores discursive, visual, social, and other communicative features of blogs.
blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere
- Inside the Blogosphere: The Weblog Phenomenon
Article by Laurence Jarvik from The Idler that examines the role, impact, and significance of blogging today.
www.the-idler.com/IDLER-02/7-15.html
- Psychology of Weblogs
Series of essays by psychologist John M. Grohol examining the phenomenon of blogs.
www.psychcentral.com/blogs
- Use the Blog, Luke
Steven Johnson from Salon.com argues that the collective future of blogs lies not in dethroning the New York Times, but in becoming a force that can make sense of the Web's infinity of links.
www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/05/10/blogbrain
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