Introduction to blogging:
Blogging
for Beginners: What You Need to Know to Start a Weblog
Jeremy
Wagstaff
Wall Street Journal, July 10,
2002
Introduction to weblogging.
Blog
Nation
James Wolcott
Business 2.0, May
2002
Random musings on the addictive nature of weblogs.
Business
pros flock to Weblogs
Martin Wolk
MSNBC, April 15,
2002
Smart look at how businesses have begun to incorporate
weblogs.
Targeted
serendipity
Anni Layne Rodgers
Fast Company, March
2002
A timely and intelligent look at weblogging.
Blogging
Jeremy
Wagstaff
Loosewire blog, February 2002
A general look
at weblogging.
A
Day-by-Day In the Life
Leslie Walker
Washington
Post, May 16, 2001
An accessible beginner's guide to weblogs,
with a good sidebar
on weblog
resources.
Been
'blogging'? Web discourse hits higher level
Glenn
Fleishman
Seattle Times, April 1, 2001
A good primer on
the weblog
phenomenon by a blogging tech journalist.
Invasion
of the 'Blog': A Parallel Web of Personal Journals
David
F. Gallagher
New York Times, Dec. 28, 2000
Well-done piece
that interviews the founders of Pyra and Blogger.
You've
got blog: You've Got Blog How to put your business, your boyfriend,
and your life on-line
Rebecca Mead
The New Yorker,
Nov. 13, 2000
Piece does a wonderful job of explaining the
culture of personal weblogs to folks who aren't especially
tech-savvy. And don't miss the Deconstruction of
'You've Got Blog' on Fawny.org.
It's
as easy as falling off a weblog
Chris
Alden
(London) Guardian, Oct. 5, 2000
Solid
introduction to the form by the editor of the Guardian Unlimited's weblog.
Staying
afloat on Weblogs
Jim Higgins
Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel, July 14, 2000
For newbies, a good introduction to
the genre, with links to resources and Hall of Fame weblogs.
What the Hell Is a Weblog (and why
won't they leave me alone?)
Derek M.
Powazek
Powazek.com, Feb. 17, 2000
A witty first-person
account of how weblogging affected one writer's life.
Anatomy
of a Weblog
Cameron
Barrett
Camworld, Jan. 26, 1999
One of the earliest
discussions of the weblog
phenomenon. Plus a May 11, 1999 update, More
About WebLogs.
LarkFarm
Undated
A
large collection of links to articles written about weblogs in print
and online publications.
Aaronland:
Weblogs, Theory and Practice
Undated
An even
larger collection.
Ten Tips for
Building a Bionic Weblog
Undated
Metascene
A
how-to guide for wanna-be bloggers.
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The intersection
of weblogs and journalism:
Will the Blogs
Kill Old Media?
Steven Levy
Newsweek, May 20,
2002
Levy predicts that traditional media will coopt weblogs.
Much
ado about blogging
Scott Rosenberg
Salon, May 10,
2002
The author makes the point that weblogs complement
traditional journalism and expand the media universe.
Use
the Blog, Luke
Steve Johnson
Salon, May 10,
2002
The co-creator of Feed says the 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.
Let
Slip the Blogs of War
Tim Cavanaugh
Online
Journalism Review, January 2002
"The War On Terrorism ... has
combined with the relentless drive of the bloggers to create an
explosion of unfathomed energy, vitality and pure wind."
A
Technological Reformation
Glenn Reynolds
Tech
Central Station, Jan. 9, 2002
The creator of InstaPundit writes about
Old Media's fear of weblogs. And a followup, All
Tomorrow's Media, April 10, 2002.
The
utter failure of weblogs as journalism: A response
Rusty
Foster
Kuro5hin, Oct. 11, 2001
The founder of Kuro5hin
examines a blogger's complaint about the failure of weblogs to
authenticate fact from fiction, and offers an analysis of blogs'
strengths and shortcomings.
Webloggers
offer views media can't
Dan Gillmor
San Jose
Mercury News eJournal, Sept. 29, 2001
In the days following
the terrorist attacks, through personal Web journals and other
non-standard news sources, people received valuable context
that the major American media couldn't, or wouldn't, provide.
Second
sight: The atrocity through the eyes of weblogs
Nick
Denton
Guardian Unlimited, Sept. 20, 2001
A commentary
on the significant role played by weblogs in relating personal
stories after the terrorist strikes.
Me-Zine
journalism for fun and (sometimes) profit
Alex
Kuczynski
New York Times, July 9, 2001
Instead of Salon and Slate,
are Mickey Kaus, Andrew Sullivan and other one-person news
operations the true future of independent journalism online?
Blogging
as a form of journalism
JD Lasica
Online Journalism
Review, May 24, 2001
Weblogs offer a vital, creative outlet
for alternative voices. Interviews with three journalists who
publish blogs: Deborah Branscum, Paul Andrews and Glenn Fleishman.
Part one of two.
Weblogs: A
new source of news
JD Lasica
Online Journalism
Review, May 31, 2001
A look at amateur journalism and the
increasing reliance that journalists will place upon expert
webloggers as a source of news and information. Interviews with Dan
Gillmor, Doc Searls and Dave Winer. Part two of two.
The News According
to Blogs
Rob Walker
Slate, March 7,
2001
Weblogs as a news medium for niche audiences.
Web
sites begin to self-organize
Katie Hafner
New York
Times, Jan. 18, 2001
Interesting look at the phenomenon of
self-organization Web sites that are largely run by its members and
intended to promote the most noteworthy articles or services as
rated by the site's users. Unfortunately, three of the four sites
cited here have already folded.
An
open-source model for the news media
Jon
Katz
Freedom Forum, Oct. 19, 1999
A look at the
interactive journalism practices of publications like Jane's
and Slashdot, which see their readers as potential information
contributors and critics.
Fear
of links
Scott Rosenberg
Salon, May 28,
1999
What are weblogs, and why do professional journalists
sniff at them?
Here
Come The Weblogs
Jon Katz
Slashdot.org, May 24,
1999
Weblogs are "a new, personal, and determinedly
non-hostile evolution of the electric community. They are also the
freshest example of how people use the Net to make their own,
radically different new media."
Nothing
quite like Slashdot.org - experience it!
Jon
Katz
Freedom Forum, Nov. 6, 1998
A look at Slashdot, "a
teeming, intensely interactive new generation Website, ... one of
the radical new media environments that are transforming the content
and nature of information."
Baring
your soul to the Web
Simon Firth
Salon, July 3,
1998
An early report on the weblog
phenomenon.
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Weblogs
sampler:
eJournal
Daily
weblog by San
Jose Mercury News tech columnist Dan Gillmor
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Doc
Searls
Senior editor at Linux Journal
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JD Lasica:
New Media Musings
Commentary on online news and current
events
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Scripting News
Silicon
Valley entrepreneur Dave Winer's take on current events
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Eric
Alterman
MSNBC weblog by
columnist Alterman.
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Rebecca's Pocket
Veteran
blogger Rebecca Blood of San Francisco
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Crikey
Lone-wolf renegade
journalism out of Australia
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Andrew
Sullivan
Right-of-center political columnist with The New
Republic
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Kausfiles
Political
commentary from former Newsweek reporter Mickey Kaus
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Talking
Points
Left-of-center political commentary from Joshua Micah
Marshall
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Peter Maas
Weblog by the
frequent contributor to the New York Times Sunday Magazine
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NetRunner
A
weblog from
the Providence Journal.
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Subterranean
Homepage News
Another weblog from the
Providence Journal, this one about music and stuff, by Sheila
Lennon.
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Kottke.org
Weblog of news
and culture from Jason Kottke
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Megnut
Pyra
co-founder Meg Hourihan
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Virtual
Acquisition Shelf & News Desk
Terrific resource from
research librarian Gary Price
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Tomalak's
Realm
Lawrence Lee, based in Vancouver, Canada, offers
pointers to stories about tech news and Web design.
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CyberJournalist.net:
Journalists who keep weblogs
A good roundup of journalists'
weblogs.
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Media and news
weblogs:
Guardian
Unlimited
London
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Opinion
Journal
Quite a bit more lively than the Wall Street
Journal's troglodyte op-ed pages
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Jim
Romenesko's Media News
Daily dish from inside the media
industry, from the Poynter Institute
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E-Media
Tidbits
Group weblog run by
the Poynter's Steve Outing
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Spike
Report
Daily pointers to media reports, from OJR
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OnlineJournalism.com
Daily
news briefs, from OJR
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Weblog
directories and search engines:
Daypop (search 5,800 weblogs
and news sites for current events)
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Eatonweb
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Linkwatcher: Fresh
blogs
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Blogarama
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Blogger
directory
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Most popular Userland
blogs
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Rebecca's Pocket:
Webloggia
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Yahoo's
directory of Web Logs (selected by Yahoo's editorial staff, but
rarely updated so it's fairly lame)
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MeZine
Central (links to political weblog
commentaries, from Slate)
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Blogdex
(top links to articles and Web sites from personal weblogs)
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The Bloggies
(no, not really a directory, but the First Annual Weblog Awards
point to a host of interesting blogs and articles on the subject)
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Books on
weblogs:
We've
Got Blog: How Weblogs are Changing Our Culture
by Editors of
Perseus Publishing (Introduction), Rebecca Blood (Introduction),
June 2002.
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The
Weblog
Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining Your
Blog
by Rebecca Blood, June 2002.
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Collaborative news
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aka Group weblogs, peer-to-peer news portals, community news
sites, open blogs, distributed news networks, et al.
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Metafilter
Unfiltered
threaded discussions of news topics and everything under the sun,
from tech to politics to culture. Attracts 85,000 unique visitors
and 1 million page views per month.
Slashdot
News for
nerds: programming, open source and Linux news. The granddaddy of
collaborative news sites, its content is generated by users but
edited by an online staff of editors. Media critic Jon Katz is now a
columnist there. The site draws more than 300,000 unique visitors a
month.
Kuro5hin (pronounced
Corrosion)
Tech, politics, culture and more. Content is generated
and programmed by users and leans to short essays and original
writings rather than "mindless link promulgation." The site attracts
100,000 unique visitors and 2.5 million page views per month.
Sci-Fi Today
A fairly
new addition to the blogosphere, Sci-Fi today uses its users to
create content around the subjects of science/technology and science
fiction.
Everything2
A sort
of self-organizing Web site, Everything2 relies on its users to
steer discussions and filter up the most interesting postings and
commentaries on a wide range of topics.
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Ken Radio Daily Tech
News Roundup
Technology insider Ken Rutkowski broadcasts
live every weekday from his studios in Marina del Rey, Calif.
Humancasting
A
people-powered next-gen streaming-video network by blogger Oliver
Willis.
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Alternative online
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The following online publications are not affiliated with a
traditional or mainstream news organization. This brief list is not
intended to be a comprehensive list of alternative newspapers or
independent Web sites.
Women's
Enews
The news service, run by a small staff of
professional journalists, was launched in June 2000 by the NOW Legal
Defense and Education Fund and became a self-supporting independent
news agency on Jan. 1, 2002. Read a profile
of Women's Enews.
International Consortium of
Investigative Journalists
Run by the Center for Public
Integrity in Washington, DC, about 100 investigative journalists
from reputable news organizations share resources and publish
stories that serve the public interest around the globe.
AlterNet
Launched on
the Web in 1998, it's a branch of the Independent Media Institute, a
not-for-profit public interest media company in San Francisco. See
my profile of
AlterNet in OJR.
Independent Media
Center
A left-of-center collective of independent media
organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots,
non-corporate coverage.
I Want Media
A
professionally designed media site, daily newsletter and database of
resources, all crafted by independent online journalist Patrick
Phillips.
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Conferences![]()
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Online
News Association Annual Conference, Berkeley, Calif., Oct.
26-27, 2001, with panel on "Journalism's New Life Forms: Community
Publishing, Weblogging, Self-Broadcasting & More." See a transcript of
the session.
The O'Reilly
Peer-to-Peer and Web Services Conference, Washington, D.C., Nov.
5-8, 2001, with panels on "Collaborative
Journalism" and "Weblogs as Peer-to-Peer Journalism: Subverting
Traditional Media." An outline of Meg Hourihan's presentation can be
found here.
Wizards
of OS (Open Cultures and Free Knowledge), Berlin, Germany, Oct.
11-13, 2001, with panel on "P2P: Collaborative Writing."