What's a Weblog?

My weblog at Harvard
Ethan Zuckerman - http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethan

Components of most blogs
Current entries, archives, links/blogroll, personal information, syndication information. Reverse-chronological order, ability for readers to comment.

Personal Weblogs
LiveJournal - http://www.livejournal.com
Dear Raed - Salam Pax, the Baghdad Blogger - http://dear_raed.blogspot.com/
Carl Bildt - former Prime Minister of Sweden - http://www.bildt.net/

Organizational Weblog - The Berkman Center
Berkman Center - http://cyber.law.harvard.edu

News Overview Weblogs
Fark - http://www.fark.com/
Boing Boing - http://boingboing.net/
Wall Street Journal's Best of the Web - http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/

(Alternative) Journalism Weblogs
Drudge Report - http://www.drudgereport.com/
Dan Gillmor's weblog - http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/
Geekpress - http://www.geekpress.com/

Interest Weblogs
Football Blog - http://www.blogfc.com/blog/
O'Reilly - technical blog - http://www.oreillynet.com/
WiFi Networking News - http://wifinetnews.com/
InternetPolicy.net (global focus) - http://gipi.typepad.com/internetpolicy/

Political Weblogs
A conservative blog - http://www.instapundit.com/
A liberal blog - http://talkingpointsmemo.com/
Howard Dean Campaign - "Blog for America" - http://www.blogforamerica.com/
Political Wire - http://www.politicalwire.com/

Expert Weblogs
Larry Lessig - Internet Law Expert - http://www.lessig.org/blog/

Joint Weblogs
Metafilter - http://www.metafilter.com
Slashdot - http://www.slashdot.org
Memepool - http://www.memepool.com
Political State Report - http://www.polstate.com/
NYCBloggers - http://www.nycbloggers.com/

Blogs Around the World

Blogs are all over the world:
http://brainoff.com/geoblog/ - The World as a Blog
http://www.blogcensus.net/ - Census of blogs around the world
http://www.interney.net/ - Brazil's most popular blog
http://www.iranfilter.com/ - Blogs from Iran
http://www.blogalization.info/conspiracy/RussianBlogs/ - Collection of Russian Language Blogs
http://www.blogafrica.com/ - BlogAfrica - collection of African Weblogs

Finding interesting blogs

Technorati Top 100 - http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/top100.html
Daypop - Blog Search Engine - http://www.daypop.com
Eatonweb Blog Directory - http://portal.eatonweb.com/
Using Technorati to check who's linking to who - http://www.technorati.com/

Getting Your Own Blog

Blogger - http://www.blogger.com/ & follow top link
Other sites that host for free: LiveJournal.com, EFX2
Index of blog hosts and tools: http://www.lights.com/weblogs/hosting.html

Getting Serious:
http://www.typepad.com - Typepad
http://www.moveabletype.org - Moveable Type
Wordpress, an open source blogging platform
Blosxom, an elegant and simple open source blogserver

Participating in the Blog Community

BlogDex - Blog popularity index - http://blogdex.net/
Technorati top 100 - http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/top100.html
Three rules for blog traffic: Comment on other people's blogs.
Link to other blogs.
Register with blog directories.

Aggregators

Dave Winer's list of aggregators - http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/directory/5/aggregators
Bloglines - Free, online aggregator
Blogstreet aggregator - works through IMAP mail clients. Free, provided by emergic.com

Desktop aggregators
Amphetadesk - Open Source, runs on Mac, Linux, Windows
Snownews - text-only aggregator for Linux. Excellent for slow machines. Localized into 8 languages.