The latest collection of information from me is a page about How to Use Blogs in Journalism Classes. I prepared it in June 2007 for my university's Institute on Journalism and Media, for which we hosted 18 journalism educators from other countries.
The links below supply the basics about blogs and blogging:
If your interests lie in the public relations field, I have another set of resource links just for you.
Here is my scholarly reference list, which is relevant to journalism studies.
In my blog Teaching Online Journalism, I occasionally discuss blogging.
Books and popular articles (online) can be found at José Luis Orihuela's Web de Blogs Bibliografía page. (Muchas cosas interesantes.)
If you're doing scholarly work in mass communication, be sure to check out Kaye Trammell's excellent list of references.
A good place to wallow and also find the latest buzz about the Weblog phenomenon is Guardian Unlimited's Special Report on Weblogs.
William Safire, the language maven of The New York Times, wrote delightfully
(as ever) about the word "blog" on Sunday, July 28, 2002: "The first use I
can find of the root of blog in its current sense was the 1999 'Robot
Wisdom Weblog,' created by Jorn Barger of Chicago. Then followed bloggers,
for those who perform the act of blogging and -- to encompass the burgeoning
world of Web logs -- blogistan as well as the coinage of William Quick on the
blog he calls The Daily Pundit, the blogosphere." (Safire wrote about
blogs again on
Feb. 19, 2006, in the Times's Sunday Magazine.)