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.

Other Media

Reflections on weblogs from the non-weblog world. For summaries and reviews of some of these, see Blake Carver's Weblog Bibliography. His list of links is also useful.

Broadcast Media

• All Things Considered - 2/13/02 "Weblogs and Writing" - NPR notices weblogs.
• The Connection is a public radio show from WBUR. They covered blogs on 5/18/00 with bloggers Rebecca, Brad, and Ev. You can find blogging resources and a recording of the show online.
• Fresh Air - A piece on blogs from linguist Geoff Nunberg
• TechTV - 3/14/02 "Blogging Hits Its Stride" is basic puffery featuring the folks from Pyra.

Print Media

• Australian IT - 5/24/01 "Tell someone who cares" introduces the concept of blogging, with quotes from several lesser-known bloggers. (The print version, scanned here, includes a sidebar of links that aren't in the online version).
• Big Issue - "Essential Multimedia: Read my diary" is a lightweight but positive introduction to blogs.
• Boston Globe - 4/2/02 "In the world of Web logs, talk is cheap" is Alex Beam taking a bunch of cheap shots at something he doesn't bother to understand.
• Brill's Content - "Human Portals" is a pretentious comparison of blogs with commercial portals that inexplicably doesn't link to the sites it talks about.
• Business 2.0 - 2/14/02 "Weblogs Make the Web Work For You" is a balanced look at weblogging.
• Business 2.0 - 5/02 "Blog Nation" appears to take as its thesis the notion that blogs only became important after 9/11.
• Business 2.0 - 5/02 "Business 2.0 Blog Guide" is a very skewed short list of blogs.
• Byte - 5/28/01 "Telling a Story: The Weblog As A Project-Management Tool" is Jon Udell's account of using a collaborative weblog to help manage a distributed project. He makes a pitch for weblogs as an important form of business communication.
• The Chicago Sun-Times published a review on 8/22/00, "Blogger lets novice make easy web logs".
• Christian Science Monitor - 4/24/01 "The nature of the blog" is pretty much just a notice that the word exists.
• Christian Science Monitor - 6/20/02 "You, too, can have a voice in 'blogland' is a balanced look at the state of blogging today
• The Courier-Journal - 9/21/01 "'Blogs capture more personal stories of tragedy" looks at blogging as a response to the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
• Detroit Free Press - 3/24/01 "Got anything to say? Blog is your soapbox" is one of the best mainstream accounts of blogs and blogging.
• Die Zeit - July 2001 "Intime Notizen für alle" is a report on the German blogging scene.
• Far Eastern Economic Review - 2/7/02 "Here's Where the Party Is" is an introduction to blogs and blogging.
• Financial Times of Deutschland - 4/11/01 "Tagebücher für die Öffentlichkeit" (Diaries for the Public) appears to be a basic introduction to the subject of blogging.
• Fortune - "Freebies Aren't Forever" uses the Pyra campaign for donations as a hook for a story on the disappearance of free web services.
• FSB - 2/1/02 "The Reader's Corner" notices weblogs, but only as a source for tech news.

• Gazeta Wyborcza - Another article about weblogs, "Swiat wedlug Bargera". Yes, it's in Polish. No, I don't know what it says.
• Inc. Magazine - "Logging on the Web" makes a (poor) case for using a weblog to drive business to a commercial site.
• Internet Magazine - 4/02 "Blogger rhythms" is an interview with Evan Williams.
• Journal da Tarde - "Weblogs, a nova moda da Rede" is a quickie review of weblogs.com.
• Le Temps - 4/3/01 "Le blog ou le reality Web" portrays blogs as a US phenomenon now making it to Europe.
• L'invasione dei "blog", il Web per tutti - An article on blogs in Italian. Scanned from some print source, but I can't tell what.
• Louisville Courier-Journal - 3/9/01 story "Let There Be Blogs!" once again confuses weblogs and diaries, and focuses on Evan Williams. Another version of this story is online at the Gannett web site.
• The Mercury News - 9/29/01 "Webloggers provide perspective the news media can't" looks at weblogs as a source for background information on the 9/11 attacks.
• Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel - "Staying afloat on WEBLOGS" in their online edition is a reasonable introduction to the genre, with lots of links.
• Montreal Mirror - "Slick as a blog" comes from talking to some Montreal bloggers, but unaccountably does not hyperlink to the sites it mentions.
• The New Yorker - 11/13/2000 story titled "You've Got Blog" is mainly about Meg Hourihan, Jason Kottke, and Blogger.
• The New York Times - 12/28/00 story "Invasion of the 'Blog': A Parallel Web of Personal Journals" is reasonably well-done, though it mistakes Blogger for the entire blog universe and isn't clear on the difference between weblogs and journals.
• The New York Times - 4/16/01 story "Popular Web Publishing Service to Get Help From Trellix" announces the Trellix deal to license Blogger.
• The New York Times - 2/25/02 "Is Weblog Technology Here to Stay or Just Another Fad?" concentrates on the business of selling weblog software
• The New York Times - 6/10/02 "A Rift Among Bloggers" attempts to stir up some mostly non-existent hostility.
• PC Magazine - 2/5/02 "The Blog Phenomenon" is John Dvorak's attempt at a sociological analysis.
• Schlock'n'Roll - Alternative comic makes fun of bloggers
• The Sacramento Bee - 11/7/01 "Web logs put a personal spin on global news" concentrates on the news-filter aspects of blogs.

• San Francisco Chronicle - 2/28/01 story "Blogging On" is only moderately clueless, which means it does a much better job than most print media.
• Seattle Times - 4/1/01 story "Been 'blogging'? Web discourse hits higher level" is a good introduction to the subject, perhaps because writer by Glenn Fleishman maintains a blog of his own.
• The Sunday Times of London - 2/24/02 "A Blogger Manifesto" is Andrew Sullivan writing about the potential of weblogs
• Sun Herald - 5/12/02 "Got Blog?" offers very basic coverage from south Mississippi.
• Technology Review - 3/02 "Blog This" sees blogging as the extreme sport, and possibly a significant one, of the web
• Time - 2/5/02 "Pssst. Wanna See my Blog?" is mainly Time noticing Blogger.
• TRADE Queer Things - "Wag Your Blog" is an article that concentrates on blogging as a way of self-expression for gay youth.
• USA Today - 8/28/01 "Online journals popular with the opinionated" covers all the basics.
• USA Today - 8/29/01 "Update: PocketMascot gives PDAs personality" includes a mention of WapBlogger.
• USNews - "Blogging burgeons as a form of Web expression" offers a straightforward introduction to the subject.
• USNews - 5/13/02 "A blog's bark has bite" is apparently under the impression that all bloggers are political pundits.
• Washington Post - 5/17/01 "A Day-by-Day In the Life" introduces the concept of blogging, mentions a few blogs, and discusses Blogger.

Web Media

• A List Apart - 2/22/02 "How to Write a Better Weblog" is mainly snobbish advice on writing, with a bit of weblog-specific stuff thrown in.
• Amy Wohl's Opinions - 8/15/01 "Life On The Internet: Could Blogging Assist KM?" looks at the possible use of blogging as a way to jump-start Knowledge Management projects.
• Berkeley Computing and Communications - "Weblogging: Another Kind of Website" is a somewhat academic analysis of weblogging.
• BerlinOnline - "Kommen Sie zu uns..." calls blogs "the newest trend in Internet Journalism".
• ChipCenter - "Web Logs: Static Web pages That Now Grow, Evolve, and Defend Against Attack": This one thinks all weblogs are moderated communities like SlashDot, or the Drudge Report (the Drudge Report?). They're not.
• Client Help Desk - "Corporate weblogs: Right for your Web sites?" is a client-oriented piece from this Internet marketing company.
• ComputerEdge Online - "Hype and the Art of Blogging" strikes a cautionary note about not overestimating the importance of blogs.
• Corante - 2/26/02 "Google Loves Blogs" looks at the growing influence of bloggers on Google search rankings.
• Corante - 3/12/02 "The Tipping Blog" attempts to analyze the patterns of link spread among blogs.
• CPL Internet Gazette - "Welcome to the World of Web Logs" provides a brief introduction to weblogs for librarians.
• Creative-Journal.com - "Journal Naked!" is an introduction to blogging from a site devoted to keeping private journals.
• CreativePro.Com - Andrea Dudrow covered weblogs in her "Eye on the Web" column on 6/26/00.
• csmonitor.com - 2/6/02 "MetaFilter.com: A great weblog" is a review from the online version of the Christian Science Monitor.
• devil shat - "Why Blogger Empowers Mindless Nits" condemns Blogger for making it too easy to publish content-free web pages.
• Dotcom Scoop - 4/8/02 "The future of Pyra Labs" accuses the company of "excessive prudence at its very worst".
• elearningpost - "Grassroots KM through blogging" considers the use of blogs in a corporate setting as a knowledge management tool.
• elepe - "¿Qué son los weblogs?" looks to be a pretty thorough introduction to the weblog phenomenon.
• eMarketer - 2/8/02 "Blogging in the Web's Footsteps" discusses weblogs as a marketing tool without actually talking to any webloggers.
• Fast Company.com - 10/16/01 "Microcontent and Microcommunity" is an account of the first meeting of the Weblogger User Group.
• Feed - "Portrait of the Blogger as a Young Man" takes Jorn Barger, hermit with a keyboard, as the prototypical blogger.
• Folha Online - "Diário on-line tem atualização rápida" is a review of Blogger and its effects in creating online communities.
• Free Pint - 5/2/02 "Weblogs and Blogging, Part I" is an excellent introduction to the field with plenty of juicy URLs. Librarians always did do good research.
• Freitag - "Blogger Dir einen!" appears to be a pretentious dissing of blogs that confuses them with diaries.
• Guardian Unlimited - 10/5/00 "It's as easy as falling off a weblog" introduces blogs and argues for them as a way to introduce novices to the Internet.
• Guardian Unlimited - 12/27/01 "The Seven Wonders of the Web" picks Blogger as one of the wonders.
• Guardian Unlimited - 1/31/02 "A tale of one man and his blog" discusses Blogger Pro with Evan Williams
• Israel Online - Judging by the links, this is an article on weblogs. I do not, however, read enough Hebrew to even guess at the title.
• I.T. - "Give us this day our daily blog" is an introduction to blogging developed by talking to a researcher who is studying blogs.
• Jo!Mag - "Was ist eigentlich ein Weblog?" appears to be a critical discussion of weblogs in the anti-weblog camp. c
• A List Apart - I think we can safely classify "Fame Fatale" as part of the anti-weblog backlash. Strikes me as much more heat than light.
• Lighthouse on the Web - "Of Google, Amazon and Weblogs: reputation management evolves" sees weblogs as part of the trend towards grassroots reputation management on the web.
• LLRX - 10/15/01 "A Closer Look at Weblogs" is a guide aimed at librarians.
• M@trix - "weblogs – die rückkehr der privaten" appears to be a discussion of how weblogging software builds communities.
• MSNBC - 4/15/02 "Business Pros Flock to Weblogs" is part Userland commercial, part a look at Weblogs in professional settings.
• Netzeitung - "Selbstverlag im Internet" has basic information about blogs as a form of self-publishing.
• National Post Online - 2/23/02 "'Bloggers' emerge from the internet underground" postulates a growing merger between blogging and mainstream media.
• National Review Online - 1/11/02 "Blog Your Memory" examines blogging and finds it interesting but not revolutionary.
• News.com - 9/21/01 "When blogging came of age" compliments bloggers' coverage of the 9/11 attack and aftermath.
• News.com - 4/19/02 "The coming of the blogs" argues for the use of blogs as a guerilla marketing tool. Product placement, anyone?
• News.com - 5/2/02 "My blog, my self" has some sensible observations about blogging from a professional journalist who has one.
• NewsLink - 10/01 "Blogs are a Natural for Librarians" discusses mainly library-related blogs.
• NZZ Online - "Jeder Link ein Treffer" ("A Link to Every Hit", or something like that) focuses on Jorn Barger but mentions several other blogs as well.
• Online Community Report - 5/02 "Interview with Evan Williams, Blogger" is just what it says.
• Online Journalism Review - "Media Web Logs for Fun and No Profit" is a look at how blogs can fit into the day of an online journalist. Includes lots of links to the author's own blog.
• Online Journalism Review - 5/16/01 "Blogged Down in the PR Machine" is an excellent look at the problems bloggers have being recognized as legitimate journalists.
• Online Journalism Review - 5/24/01 "Blogging as a Form of Journalism" is based on interviews with professional journalists who blog and comes to the conclusion that "blogging represents Ground Zero of the personal Webcasting revolution."
• Online Journalism Review - 5/31/01 "Weblogs: A New Source of News" continues with interviews with professional journalists and sees blogs as complementary to traditional media.
• Online Journalism Review - 6/28/01 "Content Management for the Masses" discusses how blogging software fits into the spectrum of CMS software.
• Online Journalism Review - 1/17/02 "Let Slip the Blogs of War" is a not especially informative look at the rise of the warblog.
• OPOVO Online - "Weblog já tem sua comunidade brasileira" is a look at the weblogging community in Brazil and an introduction to weblogging.
• O'Reilly Network - 5/3/02 "Blogspace Under the Microscope" is Jon Udell tries out some biological analogies for backlinking.
• O'Reilly Network - 6/13/02 "What We're Doing When We Blog" is Meg Hourihan's attempt to define blogs by form rather than content.
• PC Format - "The PC Entertainment Magazine" weighs in with a quick roundup titled "Wise up to Web logs".
• Pressflex - 5/28/02 "Blogonomics" is an optimistic view about the coming blog-fueled media revolution.
• Release 1.0 - "Triumph of the Weblogs" is a good description of the weblog phenomenon, with cheerleading for it as a major advance.
• Salon - 5/28/99 "Fear of Links" is an early look at connections between blogging and journalism.
• Salon - 5/10/02 "Much Ado About Blogging" attempts to puncture the current round of mainstream articles about blogging.
• Salon - 5/10/02 "Use the blog, Luke" proposes organizing blogs as a force to compete with Google. It won't happen.
• Software Carpentry - "Internet Groupware for Scientific Collaboration" by Jon Udell mentions some weblogging software in the context of many other collaborative tools.
• The Standard - "Plastic Medium" makes the silly assumption that all blogs come from Blogger, and speculates about the changing nature of the web.
• State Bar of Texas - "Let's Blog!" is an introduction to weblogging for lawyers.
• Techno Greeks - A screed from media.org about whether blogging is revolutionary. Some good points, some meaningless invective, and a silly conclusion (that building websites "that matter" is revolutionary).
• TIG Newsletter - 11/30/01 "Weblog Power" is a survey with a bunch of links
• Underweb - 11/13/01 "Weblogs sociedade perfeita" is a general look at blogging.
• Web ad.vantage - 7/26/01 "Blogging -- Funny Name, Great for Online Marketing" looks at the use of weblogs as a marketing tool.
• Webmonkey - 5/2/02 "The Weblog Tool Roundup" is a survey of the most popular "big name" weblogging software.
• Webreview - "Labs, Robots, and Giant Floating Brains: The Amazingly True Story of Blogger!", an interview with Evan Williams from the most vapid interviewer I can recall in recent history.
• Webreview - 8/24/01 "Running a Weblog From IRC" discusses hooking up an IRC bot to your blog.
• Webreview - 8/24/01 "Which Blog Is Best For You?" examines DiaryLand, LiveJournal, Blogger, and Greymatter.
• Wired's take on the rise of weblogging fueled by new software.
• Wired - 5/2/01 "Separating News From Noise" is mostly about news aggregators but also mentions some weblogs.
• Wired - 7/30/01 "Tracking Bloggers With Blogdex" reports a sighting of a new weblog spider.
• Wired - 2/18/02 "Blah, Blah, Blah and Blog" finally notices that there's an anti-blog backlash.
• Wired - 5/9/02 "Flash: Blogging Goes Corporate" discusses Macromedia-sponsored blogs
• Wired - 6/6/02 "Blogging Goes Legit, Sort Of" discusses a grad school blogging course, ignoring the courses that predated it.
• WriteTheWeb - "Deconstructing blogging: Nikolai Nolan" features a few words with the creator of the Bloggies.
• WriteTheWeb - "The State of the Blog" is a three-part interview with Evan Williams after the near-collapse of Pyra.
• Yahoo! Internet Life - "Who Let the Blogs Out" is a good overview of blogs and blogging, with plenty of links.
• ZDNet Interactive Week - 1/15/01 "The Cult of Blog" portrays  bloggers as just folks trying to share their views.

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