The Blogging Iceberg
The results of this survey should not be surprising. The authors estimate that while more than 4 million blogs have been created on blog hosting services, almost 3 million of them have been abandoned, leaving (only) a little more than a million active blogs. More...

Compatibility of Weblogs and ISSN
This article, written for ISSN registrars, offers a fascinating glimpse into the issues faced by librarians with respect to understanding - and reacting to - the weblog phenomenon. ISSN is, of course, the unique number assigned to a serial publication. Weblogs are classically serial publications, and therefore, should be registered. More...

Coping With Complexity: How Do You Read Other Weblogs?
Beginning with the observation that blogs do not, after all, solve the information glut, the author asks the question: how do you read blogs? The author identifies "three main goals when reading other weblogs: staying updated, following a conversation and problem-solving." The bulk of the discussion relates to the first point, which leads me to question the second a little and the third a lot. More...

Weblogs: Applications for Artists
Artsy slides (using the Microsoft 'Artsy' theme, which isn't really very artsy) from my presentation (in Moncton and videoconferenced to Fredericton and Prince Edward island) yesterday to Arts-Netlantic, "a network of artists, information technologists, and scholars from the public and private sectors of Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick, interested in understanding the role of culture in the appreciation and creation of new media." The presentation describes weblogs in broad detail and then suggested a number of applications particular to the arts community. More...

Blogs Canada
This is definitely not the Government of Canada. But it is pretty funny in design, and if they can extend their reach beyond the LiveJournal universe, potentially useful as well. Blogs Canada is a large (though obviously partial) list of Canadian blogs, presented in a format remarkably similar to the Government of Canada home pages. More...

Webloggers Deal Harvard Blog-Bores a Black Eye
Dave Winer's efforts to organize a conference called BloggerCon at Harvard's Berkman Law School are attracting the attention - and ire - of some bloggers. This article, in typical Register, pulls no punches as it calls into question the political affiliations of the speakers, the conference fee, and the organization. More...

TS Author Forum on Blogging
Short commentary on my online Technology Source webcast yesterday with Mary Hirrsh on the subjects of blogging and RSS (I would have run an advanced notice but jet lag got the better of me). More...

How I Would Implement Weblogs in Business
I think the key question is: would anybody be this honest in a business setting: "Using a Weblog, I could chronicle the daily activities, learnings, experiences and developments of the community. As the community grew and interest spread, the Weblog could have become the best single resource for understanding the internal workings of the community, why it works, what we'd learned, what the manager does, what the members think, etc." No, probably not. More...

All Over For Blogs?
Weblogs won't disappear because, of course, websites won't disappear. But the hype will ebb and I would say that the number of active blogs will be cut in half over the next six months to a year. Articles will start noticing the glut of abandoned blogs and the format will recede into the background. More...

The Blogging Process
Via Seb, this item is a detailed and pretty accurate look at the blogging process. The diagram will grab your eye and focus your attention, but read the commentary too. Note the time estimates. More...