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Wired - The Blogging Revolution  - http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.05/mustread.html?pg=2  Andrew Sullivan argues that weblogs are to words what Napster was to music.  news.com - The coming of the blogs  - http://news.com.com/2010-1076-886773.html  Weblogs are good places for marketers to observe and learn from the public.  FOXNews.com - Blogging Into the Big Time  - http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,50442,00.html  A new New York newspaper grew out of a one-man website.  International Herald Tribune - Adieu, editors?  - http://www.iht.com/articles/54701.html  Blogging as a form of publishing may do away with editors (and objectivity) altogether.  MISCmedia.com: Log - It's Better Than Bad, It's Good  - http://www.miscmedia.com/7-16-99.html  Clark Humphrey's introduction to Weblogs, and suggested started points.  I Blog, Therefore I Am (BBC)  - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2000/dot_life/1799998.stm  Reports on the phenomenon of blogging.  The Register - 'Blogosphere' to reach 10 million, almost all dead  - http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/33214.html  Article reports on a survey which suggests that blogging is a fad.  The Register - Most bloggers 'are teenage girls'  - http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30954.html  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.  The Register - Google to fix blog noise problem  - http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30621.html  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.  Perseus - The Blogging Iceberg  - http://www.perseus.com/blogsurvey/  Results and analyses of a survey of blogs on eight leading blog-hosting services.  msnbc.com - Business pros flock to Weblogs  - http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3073400/  Online diaries create new form of journalism.  editorandpublisher.com - Blogrolling On a River  - http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1463420  Blogging has gone mainstream.  Wired News: The Web the Way It Was  - http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,34006,00.html  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."  Salon Technology - Fear of Links  - http://www.salon.com/tech/col/rose/1999/05/28/weblogs/index.html  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."  NYTimes.com - Online Digests Help Readers Cope With Information Avalanche  - http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/08/biztech/articles/02link.html  Andy Wang writes about pioneers in news blogging. [Free nytimes.com registration needed to view this article.]  PR Studies: Social History of Blogs  - http://prstudies.typepad.com/weblog/2003/10/social_history_.html  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.  Columbia Journalism Review - A Brief History of Weblogs  - http://www.cjr.org/issues/2003/5/blog-jensen.asp  Mallory Jensen discusses how blogs went from being a very minor presence to a major fad/movement.  UserLand.Com: The History of Weblogs  - http://www.userland.com/theHistoryOfWeblogs  Dave Winer gives early examples of blogs and points to early news articles about them.  Weblogs: A History and Perspective  - http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html  Rebecca Blood, an early blogger, describes the rise of blogging.  WriteTheWeb: The State of the Blog  - http://www.writetheweb.com/Members/gilest/old/106  Email interview with WriteTheWeb. Evan Williams, his company Pyra, and its product Blogger, have come a long way in the last two years.  AskMen.com - Weblogs  - http://www.askmen.com/toys/special_feature_60/64_special_feature.html  Feature article explaning how weblogs came about being an Internet phenomenon.  I'm Blogging This: A Closer Look at Why People Blog  - http://www.ics.uci.edu/%7Ejpd/classes/ics234cw04/nardi.pdf  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.  The Function of Language to Facilitate and Maintain Social Networks in Research Weblogs  - http://www.eng.umu.se/stephanie/web/LanguageBlogs.pdf  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]  Shirky: Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality  - http://shirky.com/writings/powerlaw_weblog.html  Clay Shirky's writings. Discusses the phenomenon of a few weblogs having a majority of the visitors.  Syllabus.com - Blogs: A Disruptive Technology Coming of Age?  - http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=6774  Discusses the growth of blogging as it has become easier to do so.  Blogging Thoughts: Personal Publication as an Online Research Tool  - http://www.ics.uci.edu/%7Ejpd/classes/ics234cw04/mortensen.pdf  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]  Bridging the Gap: A Genre Analysis of Weblogs  - http://www.ics.uci.edu/%7Ejpd/classes/ics234cw04/herring.pdf  Indiana University LIS students' research paper presents the results of a content analysis of 203 randomly-selected weblogs. [620 KB pdf document]  Clickz.com - Paid Subscription Blogging, Part 1  - http://www.clickz.com/experts/design/freefee/article.php/3088241  "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.  Clickz.com - Paid Subscription Blogging, Part 2  - http://www.clickz.com/experts/design/freefee/article.php/3088281  Can bloggers successfully charge subscription fees? Professional bloggers weigh in. Part two of a two-part series.  Fast Company: All the News That's Fit to Blog  - http://www.fastcompany.com/online/57/jellis.html  News does not need to be confined to newspapers nowadays. Those people in the know are writing and publishing news as it happens.  MercuryNews.com - Election results humble bloggers  - http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/10096397.htm  Bloggers posted early exit numbers suggesting Kerry would become president of the US.  Online Journal Review - Influence peddling in the blogosphere  - http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/050217lasica/  Article asks what ethical standards should bloggers follow when offered payments or freebies for buzz?  InformationWeek - The Weblog Question  - http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=59100462  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?"  Wired News: Porn Blogs Manipulate Google  - http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,64422,00.html  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.  Knowledge@Wharton - Blogs, Everyone? Weblogs Are Here to Stay, but Where Are They Headed?  - http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/1172.cfm  Discusses trends in the world of blogs. [Requires free registration]  BBC News - Global voices speak through blogs  - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4414247.stm  A blogging project, "Global Voices," aims to bring together global blogs and their stories in ways that mainstream media do not.