Information and commentary on finding interesting blogs, starting your own blog, promoting your blog.

Feature article explaning how weblogs came about being an Internet phenomenon.

A blogging project, "Global Voices," aims to bring together global blogs and their stories in ways that mainstream media do not.

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]

Indiana University LIS students' research paper presents the results of a content analysis of 203 randomly-selected weblogs. [620 KB pdf document]

"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.

Can bloggers successfully charge subscription fees? Professional bloggers weigh in. Part two of a two-part series.

Mallory Jensen discusses how blogs went from being a very minor presence to a major fad/movement.

CyberJournalist.net has created a model Bloggers' Code of Ethics, by modifying the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics for the Weblog world.

Material written after being asked the question, "How do I start a weblog?"

"Hundreds of online diary authors keep weblogs. And thousands of people use weblog sites and software to keep journals. So what's the difference? plenty." A comparison by Ryan Kawailani Ozawa.

Blogging has gone mainstream.

News does not need to be confined to newspapers nowadays. Those people in the know are writing and publishing news as it happens.

A new New York newspaper grew out of a one-man website.

Reports on the phenomenon of blogging.

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 software.

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?"

Proofed steps to install MovableType onto Windows XP system. Includes environment installation, configuration and troubleshooting.

Blogging as a form of publishing may do away with editors (and objectivity) altogether.

Discusses trends in the world of blogs. [Requires free registration]

Bloggers posted early exit numbers suggesting Kerry would become president of the US.

Clark Humphrey's introduction to Weblogs, and suggested started points.

Online diaries create new form of journalism.

Weblogs are good places for marketers to observe and learn from the public.

Andy Wang writes about pioneers in news blogging. [Free nytimes.com registration needed to view this article.]

Article asks what ethical standards should bloggers follow when offered payments or freebies for buzz?

Results and analyses of a survey of blogs on eight leading blog-hosting services.

Aggregation of news stories about bloggers writing about their work and the problems that has caused.

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.

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."

Clay Shirky's writings. Discusses the phenomenon of a few weblogs having a majority of the visitors.

Discusses the growth of blogging as it has become easier to do so.

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]

Essays about blogging and the behavior and motivations behind it.

Article reports on a survey which suggests that blogging is a fad.

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.

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.

Dave Winer gives early examples of blogs and points to early news articles about them.

Written by Jorn Barger in September 1999.

Rebecca Blood, an early blogger, describes the rise of blogging.

Andrew Sullivan argues that weblogs are to words what Napster was to music.

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.

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."

Article about writing a better blog, by Dennis A. Mahoney.

Email interview with WriteTheWeb. Evan Williams, his company Pyra, and its product Blogger, have come a long way in the last two years.