Introductory Blogging Webliography

Some good reading to situate blogs in their wider historical, cultural and pedagodical contexts:

Blood, Rebecca." Weblogs: A History and Perspective." Rebecca's Pocket, 7 September 2000, http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html.

Glaser, Mark. "Scholars Discover Weblogs Pass Test as Mode of Communication." Online Journalism Review, 11 May 2004, http://ojr.org/ojr/glaser/1084325287.php.

Gurak, Laura, et al., eds. Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community and the Culture of Weblogs. 2004, http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/.

Walker, Jill & Mortensen, Torill. "Personal Publication as an Online Research Tool. With Torill Mortensen. In Researching ICTs in Context." InterMedia Report, ed. Andrew Morrison, Oslo, 2002, http://www.intermedia.uio.no/konferanser/skikt-02/docs/
Researching_ICTs_in_context-Ch11-Mortensen-Walker.pdf.