Judithsviews - Blogs - Resources and a few examples
Blog (n., blawg) also referred to as weblog or web log - a frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links. A blog is often a mixture of what is happening in a person's life (or work) and what is happening on the Web, a kind of hybrid diary/guide site, although there are as many unique types of blogs as there are people. There are about 4,000,000 blogs now.
Blogs are the place to go if you really want to learn what is going on in the world. For more information read What is a Weblog from the Guardian.
A few places
to start browsing:
• BlogLines top blogs
- updated nightly, good stuff here
• Blog Street Top 100
• Guardian
Unlimited Weblog Guide
• technorati top
100
• UNESCO
Blogs - library and book related
Selected library
blogs
• The
Aardvark Speaks - librarian from Vienna, and sidekick - just go there and
see
• blog without a library
- how libraries are using blogs
• Judithsviews
- libraries, literacy, environment, etc.
• Neat New Stuff - ongoing
list to outstanding web resources created by a librarian..
Selected personal
blogs
• Bagdad Burning "Girl
Blog from Iraq...war, politics and occupation" (eyewitness account by a
well educated young Iraqi woman)
• Bilmon.org - weblog - news analysis,
mostly politics.
• Juan Cole: Informed Comment
• Textism - he doesn't update it
much, but the photographs are great, especially if you like dogs.
• What's in Rebecca's Pocket
- media literacy, sustainability, web culture, and domestic life, current events.
• Where is Raed? - now famous,
eyewitness account from Iraq
Selected collective blogs - group participation
• DailyKOS - political
analysis, news analysis
• Metafilter - link driven, community
weblog
• Plastic - culture, politics, news, education
Get Your Own Blog
• Blogger
• Blogging Resources
• Movable Type
• The Internet Courses:
Weblogs (library related)
• Spaces - new free blogging site
from MSN
Conferences on Blogging
• Blogging, Journalism,
Credibility - recent conference on blogging at Harvard. Transcripts, audiofiles.
Informative Humor
• Fox
News Take on Blogging - humorous, not very informative though
• Blogger Knowledge - informative,
current updates in the blogosphere
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