Nördar eller politiska aktivister – vem står för äkta blogging?Techblogs mot warblogs i en något barnslig revirstrid. Läs mer på New York Times Se även blogroots.com som är en ny blog som vill diskutera blogging på en metanivå. Den är skriven av Meg Hourihan, Matt Haughey och Paul Bausch. De planerar även en bok vars mål är
We wanted to write a book that would appeal to both long-time bloggers and people just getting started. We also wanted to do more than document the technical workings of the various blogging systems since what really interests us about weblogs are the ways in which blogging has changed our social interactions online. Simply put, we wanted to write a book that would capture our passion for weblogs — from the ways in which blogging has transformed our relationships with people both near and far to the technical workings of weblog tools like Movable Type and Radio Userland — and allow us to share it with you.
Boken We blog: Publishing online with weblogs kommer i augusti.
Se även Wireds artikel om blogging i relation till traditionell journalistik och journalistutbildning. Här hävdas bland annat att
The intellectual-property issues the Berkeley class will try to sift through are particularly important to the blogging community, because a weblog site’s combination of liberally used links and off-the-cuff commentary make it a juicy target for corporate lawsuits.
”We’re probably only six months away from seeing a blogger served with a libel lawsuit,” Microcontent News’ Hiler said.