IMPORTANT NOTICE

I am no longer maintaining this list as of July 2002. I will not be adding, updating, or correcting these entries, so link rot will set in quickly. Brig Eaton is going to be maintaining a newer list over at the Eatonweb Portal. I suggest that you go there instead of here.

Missing In Action

The resources in this section would not load the last time I tried to visit them. If anyone has information on their whereabouts, please email me with updates.

• BBC Online has a little thing called Get Bloggin' that covers the basics of finding weblogs or setting up your own.
• blogcounter - Bar graph of the number of weblogs listed on the Eatonweb Blog Portal. (MIA 11/00)
• Bloggando - Directory of Italian weblogs. (MIA 2/02)
• Bloggin' Divas - Members of the Digital Divas who blog. (MIA 11/00)
• Blog Girls Webring: "You don't *have* to be a girl, but the ring is intended for females :)" (MIA 12/01)
• The Blog Twinning Project - Vote-driven page to identify similar weblogs (MIA 2/02)
• BlogVoices - Discussion-group hosting for Blogger-powered blogs. (MIA 12/01)
• Chicago Weblogs - "Weblogs from, in, around, or about Chicago." (MIA 12/01)
• Collective - A weblog list that you can add your own weblog to. (MIA 11/00)
• Cox, Wootton, Griffin & Hansen, LLP - A law firm with a list of weblogs. (MIA 2/02)
• The Daily Web Log offers a list of several hundred weblogs, some with capsule reviews (MIA 12/01)
• deutschsprachige Blogger im Web - German-language bloggers. (MIA 12/01)
• Eatonweb Blog Portal (XML version) (via Turlyming) (MIA 12/01)
• Editor & Publisher Online's 3/8/2000 story ends with "The corporatization of Weblogs has begun." (MIA 12/01)
• Fox News - "Egomaniacs.com?" is perhaps the most clueless article yet, unable to distinguish between blogs, journals, and personal sites. (MIA 12/01)
• The Globe and Mail - 4/16/01 "Firms underestimate power of 'blogging'" argues that blogs could be extremely useful in a corporate intranet setting. (MIA 12/01)
• The Great Blogger Trivial Pursuit - Match the facts to the bloggers. (MIA 2/02)
• Hot List - The 100 sites (weblogs and otherwise) most linked to by the weblogs on the Weblog Monitor list. (MIA 12/01)
• I Blog U - Source for free templates for Blogger sites (see the "Templates" links in the table of contents). (MIA 11/00)
• Internet Cool Guide - "Dear Blog" is an introduction to blogs in blog-format, by someone who just doesn't get it. (MIA 12/01)
• Irish Independent - 7/2/01 "Joe Blogg's Diary" is a short but mostly positive evaluation of blogs. (MIA 2/02)
• John's Simple *nix IRC Guide will get you started if you're using unix or Linux and need IRC information. (MIA 11/00)
• King5.com - Their story, "Weblogs conform to nonconformity", is based on the weblogs panel at SXSW and quotes some prominent bloggers. Bonus points to King5 for actually linking to the sites they quoted. (And no points to the Dallas Morning News, original source of the story, whose version has vanished because they don't keep permanent links). (MIA 11/00)
• Kiwi Blogs - A webring for New Zealand webloggers. (MIA 11/00)
• L.A. Times - 10/14/01 "Personal Web Logs Put a Face on a Faraway Disaster" is a somewhat pontifical piece on weblog coverage of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. (MIA 12/01)
• Magnet - "O maior weblog coletivo do Brasil" appears to be a discussion of a Brazilian group weblog. (MIA 12/01)
• Minnesota Public Radio interviewed weblogger Jesse James Garrett (RealAudio file). (MIA 12/01)
• Newsweek - "Who's Blogging Now?" can't tell the difference between weblogs and journals, and portrays them all as pathological exhibitionism. (MIA 12/01)
• Non-Negative Blogging - This may be the first organized movement in bloggerdom. They promise to "promote constructive thinking rather than destructive attacks." (MIA 12/01)
• One Percent Bloggers With Content - "a webring for those Blogs that actually provide content and not just links to other Blogs and useless sites." (MIA 11/00)
• OpenBlogPortal - List that allows weblogs to add their own links and categorize themselves. (MIA 2/02)
• A Picture of Weblogs is a java applet that graphically displays the links between weblogs. (MIA 12/01)
• Planet Weblog is "the blogger observatory". (MIA 11/00)
• Plogger - PHP-based blogging tool. (MIA 11/00)
• Power Bloggers - Based on the Blogger XML file of recent updates, this one tracks the most active bloggers. (MIA 2/02)
• The Psychology of Weblogs - An essay from dead@32 musing on whether weblogs are really all that trustable. (MIA 12/01)
• Reuters covered the weblog panel at SXSW. Unfortunately, they were severely clue-deficient. (MIA 11/00)
• The San Diego Union-Tribune reprinted the Dallas Morning News story on May 16. (MIA 11/00)
• Sharp Studio - If you're using Blogger, these folks have a free template available to dress up your page. (MIA 11/00)
• Southern Blogs - "Serving up Wit with our Grits". Home of the southern blogs webring and portal. (MIA 11/00)
• TechTV - "The Blogging Bandwagon" is pretty lightweight, and mistakes the tool for the output, ignoring those of us who maintain blogs without using Blogger or Pitas or Greymatter. (MIA 2/02)
• Toronto Blogs - On the sidebar of Jish.nu.  (MIA 11/00)
• Ubersearch saves you from visiting those separate search engines. With one click, it submits your search to the linkwatcher, Weblog Monitor, and Blogger search engines simultaneously. (MIA 11/00)
• UK Blogs - Thanks to Meg at Not So Soft. (MIA 11/00)
• USA Weekend - 6/17/01 "Blogmania" is about as deep as you'd expect from the USA Today folks. (MIA 12/01)
• The Voices Behind the Text - Audio clips of bloggers. (MIA 12/01)
• We All Rock, Now - An essay by Melanie Levi, introducing the concept of a weblog with links to some resources. (MIA 11/00)
• Web Design One - Houston Community College assignment to create and maintain a weblog. (MIA 12/01)
• Webforyou - "Sind denn alle Blogger Panne?" suggests that blogs will run their course, and only a few will survive once the trendiness passes. (MIA 2/02)
• WeBlog - Free Manila-based hosting in New Zealand (MIA 12/01)
• Weblog Monitor Search - Searches for keywords across the current front pages of all weblogs tracked by Weblog Monitor. You can use the search form on the WLM home page, or just construct your own search string and tell your browser to go there. For example, this URL will find all mentions of "Larkfarm":
  http://www.weblogs.com/stats/findinweblogs$Larkfarm
  Just replace the part after the dollar sign with your own search string (MIA 12/01)
• Weblogs - Mailing list and database of weblogs. Note: As of 4/12/00, the list moderator appears to no longer be approving messages for posting to this group. (MIA 12/01)
• Web Log Scoop Index - Measures which weblogs tend to have more original stories, and which ones pick up stories ahead of the pack. (MIA 2/02)
• Weblogs-Social - A new mailing list on eGroups, deliberately open to chatter and community. (MIA 2/02)
• Web Log Word Count Index - Sorts weblogs by the total number of words on their front page. Also includes complete word lists for all monitored weblogs, sorted by frequency and alphabetically, the most used and longest words, first letter tallys, percent of unique words by weblog, and other pointless and wonderful statistics. (MIA 11/00)
• The Webmistress - Also has some free Blogger templates (links at the bottom of the right-hand column). (MIA 11/00)
• Webreview - Their coverage is titled "The Blogging Revolution", and provides an overview of blogging. (MIA 12/01)
• Wendell's Wonderful World of Weblogging - Wendell Wittler's take on the current news and sites within the weblog community. (MIA 11/00)
• Joe Clark's Xenoblogs lists weblogs from outside the USA (MIA 11/00)

• ZZPOST - JSP-based tool similar to blogger. (MIA 12/01)

Retired

• blog.start - A categorized list of both weblogs and weblog resources. [Domain lapsed, snapped up by porn site, October 2001]
• metablog is a blog of weblog-related resources. [No longer being updated as of January 2001]

• MetaLog - Sites most frequently linked to by weblogs. Not currently being updated.
• Organizine - Browser-based tool for publishing frequently-updated documents. Requires you to have FTP-accessible server space somewhere. [This one shut down in January 2001]
• Weblog Rankings - Measures which weblogs are linked to most often by other weblogs. Not currently being updated.

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