Blogs and Blogging

Is it a journal, a log, a diary, a personal website? Just what is a blog, anyway? And what is a blogger? Visit the links below to learn more about this interesting way of learning, sharing, and communicating with others.

BLOGGING BASICS
Weblog: from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog (entry for "weblog")
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki (entry for "wiki")
What's a wiki? A communal, public blog, or open forum, that allows anyone to add and modify content. This entry, from Wikipedia, a popular example of the wiki, offers readers a history of blogging, an explanation of the many types of blogs (personal, news, political, legal, advice, etc.), a glossary of blogging terms, and a lengthy list of links to related sites.

Blog Glossary
http://www.samizdata.net/blog/glossary.html
The blog culture has spawned an entirely new vocabulary. Bleg, blawg, blogathy, blogerati - find out what these and many more blog-related terms mean at this entertaining and informative site.

A Brief History of Weblogs, by Mallory Jensen
http://www.cjr.org/issues/2003/5/blog-jensen.asp

Blogging101: History, Parts, Read/Write, Find, Create, Readings, by Anton Zuiker
http://www.unc.edu/~zuiker/blogging101/index.html

Emerging Trends: Educational Blogging, by Robert Whelan, ITS Faculty Technology Center, New York University
http://www.nyu.edu/its/ftc/ls/blog.html
This interesting article features a discussion of the benefits of blogs in regular education and with ESL students, who can use blogs to develop their reading, research and writing skills, and collaborate with others.

FREE BLOGGING SITES
Blogger.com
http://www.blogger.com/start

Blog-City
http://www.blog-city.com/bc/

Bubbler.com
http://www.bubbler.com/index.shtml

myblogsite
http://www.myblogsite.com/?sid=GOOGLEblog

Squarespace
http://www.squarespace.com/?partnerTag=google&planTag=blgnetwork

INTERESTING BLOGS, ABOUT ALL SORTS OF THINGS

NEWS, POLITICS AND LAW
Best of the Blogs
http://www.bestoftheblogs.com/

Democracy for America
http://www.democracyforamerica.com/

instapundit.com
http://www.instapundit.com/

PrawfsBlawg: a Group of Young Legal Turkeys Offering Their Thoughts on Law and the Things That Really Matter in Life
http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/

Right Wing News
http://www.rightwingnews.com/

Slate
http://www.slate.com/

BOOKS, AUTHOR BIOS AND INTERVIEWS, AND MORE
Beatrice.com
http://beatrice.com/

Bookreporter.com
http://www.bookreporter.com/

Moorishgirl.com
http://www.moorishgirl.com/

Girlfriend Cyber Circuit
http://gcc.blog-city.com/