It’s official: weblogging is now a topic of study at UC Berkeley.
Interesting discussions abound about how blogging (as it’s otherwise called) is actually the antithesis of journalism, what with the press being subject to various influences which produce biased reporting. Bloggers, on the other hand, are seldom if ever influenced by profit motives because they write from a personal point of view.
The Online Journalism Review explores weblogs as a new form of journalism.
The Best British Blog competition is being organised by the Guardian, whose own weblog, dedicated to ‘noteworthy reads online’, has been running for two years and contains relevant links to other news websites. Magnanimous.
A couple of noteworthy blog books are out, more will definitely follow.
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