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