How to blog

• An Introduction to Weblogs by Diego Doval -- a guide to blogging
• EFF: How to Blog Safely maintaining privacy and anonymity while blogging
• How to Blog by Tony Pierce -- tips for bloggers
• Tips for Conference Bloggers

Blogging software, services, and utilities

• Weblogs Compendium hosts an extensive lists of blogging services/software
• Blogger free blogging service with many features, now owned by Google
• Movable Type popular blogging software that must be downloaded and installed onto a web server
• TypePad subscription-based online hosting service from Six Apart/Movable Type
• Vox from SixApart, makers of TypePad and Movable Type, a simple service that enables the blogger to control access
• Livejournal also from SixApart, enables "friend pages" that only friends can see
• Xanga community of online diaries and journals
• WordPress a free, hosted version of the service favored by many bloggers
• WordPress Quickstart screencast tutorial
• Free blogs for teachers
• Hosted WordPress hosting services for a more professional setup
• Radio Userland from Dave Winer, creator of the first blog software, Manila
• Bloglines free, web based RSS aggregator to find and follow blogs
• coComment web service that allows you to keep track of conversations happening in blogs and comment threads>

About blogging

• The Blogging Phenomenon: An Overview and Theoretical Consideration by James P. Branum
• Digital Community: The Age of Technology and the Social Network by Brad King
• Weblogs: a history and perspective by Rebecca Blood
• Bloggers: A portrait of the internet's new storytellers (Pew Internet & American Life Project)
• Helping Others See Beyond The Surface, Makes Blogs True Digital Weapons Of Mind Change by Robin Good
• Blogs and Community by Nancy White; Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Pulling sense out of today's informational chaos: LiveJournal as a site of knowledge creation and sharing by Kate Raynes-Goldie
• A Blogger's Blog: Exploring the Definition of a Medium by danah boyd
• Theories, Practices of Blogging -- special issue of Reconstruction: studies in contemporary culture

Blogging in business

• Wikis, blogs and other community tools in the enterprise: Solve enterprise application problems with social collaboration technology. By Joel A. Farrel.
• The porous membrane: Why corporate blogging works. how blogs facilitate communication between companies and customers
• Business Week Online: Blogs at Boeing Corporation
• Business Week: Does Your Small Business Need a Blog? Part One
• Business Week: Does Your Small Business Need a Blog? Part Two
• Stigmergic Collaboration: The Evolution of Group Work
• The Case for Blogging how blogs can be used as tools in corporate settings
• Corporate Blogs: A Dialogic Tool (When Used Correctly) by Alyson Lindsay
• Web 2.0 Has Corporate America Spinning: What every CEO needs to know about the array of new tools that foster online collaboration -- and could revolutionize business by Robert Hof
• The 25 basic styles of blogging -- and when to use each one (Ogilvy PR)

Blogging and journalism

• Blogs reflect power of the pen by Bill Thompson
• Blogosphere: the emerging Media Ecosystem: How Weblogs and Journalists work together to Report, Filter and Break the News, by John Hiler.
• Ignore bloggers at your peril, say researchers: Online pundits "influence businesses and opinion," by Bobbie Johnson.
• Bloggers Freer Than Reporters? And vice versa by Jack Shafer
• Online Journalism: Modeling the First Generation of News Media on the World Wide Web by Mark Deuze
• Journalism without journalists by Nicholas Lemann -- the New Yorker's critique of bloggers

Blogs in education

• Integrating Course Design and Site Design with Drupal
• Classroom Blogging: A Teacher's Guide to the Blogosphere by David Warlick
• Scholars Discover Weblogs Pass Test as Mode of Communication
• The educated blogger: Using weblogs to promote literacy in the classroom by David Huffaker
• Laboratory - Blogs Blogs in education at NITLE.org
• Educational Blogging by Stephen Downes
• Ways to use weblogs in education tips for using blogs in the classroom
• Science in the web age: Joint efforts by Declan Butler
• Teaching with blogs by Joe Sanchez
• Instructional use of weblogs by Yavuz Akbulut
• May the tech be with you -- blogs in education
• Moderating and ethics for the classroom instructional blog
• Blogging helps encourage teen writing -- Pew Survey
• Using Technology to 'Hack' College Life: an Interview With a Student Blogger

Political and civic blogging

• The Dean Campaign: A Manifesto
• The Hope of the Web by Bill McKibbon
• Joe Trippi: The Perfect Storm how blogging can contribute to political organization
• The Power and Politics of Blogs (pdf) academic paper on the role of blogs in politics
• Instapundit
• Daily Kos popular liberal blog
• War of the Blogs: New books by Instapundit and Kos present dueling visions of the future -- as libertarian paradise or populist battleground by Scott Rosenberg
• Find Your Voice: Writing For a Webzine by Philip E.
• Habermas Heritage: the future of the public sphere in the network society by Pieter Boeder
• Interactive Government how blogs allow for better communication between citizens and government
• Civic Leadership Blogging on DoWire.org (Democracies Online)
• UK Case Studies in Civic and Community Blogging case studies in e-democracy

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