A history of the scholary discourse on blogs

Blood, Rebecca
"Hammer, Nail: How Blogging Software Reshapes the Online Community" December 02, 2004

The evolution of blogs in response to software like Blogger.

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Blood, Rebecca. "How Blogging Software Reshapes the Online Community." Communications of the ACM. 47.12 (December 2004): 53-55.

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Blood, Rebecca. "Hammer, Nail: How Blogging Software Reshaped the Online Community." Rebecca's Pocket. December 2004.

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Abold, Roland. "1000 Little Election Campaigns: Utilisation and Acceptance of Weblogs in the Run-up to the German General Election 2005." 2006 ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, 25-30 April, 2006. Nicosia/Cyprus.

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Nilsson, Joachim, and Svante Nymark. "Bloggen i det politiska arbetet: riksdagsledamöters användning av IT-artefakten blogg" Ekonomihögskolan Lunds universitet. Kandidatarbete. January, 2006.

Schweer, Andrea and Andreas Lööw. "Expressions: Context-Enhanced Mobile Blogging." International workshop on Context in Mobile HCI. 19-22 September, 2005. Salzburg.

Thelwall, Mike, Rudy Prabowo, and Ruth Fairclough. "Are Raw RSS Feeds Suitable for Broad Issue Scanning? A Science Concern Case Study." 2005.

Unger, Frank. "Die Blogosphäre-Inhaltliche Strukturen deutschsprachiger Weblogs." Master's thesis. Technische Universität Dresden, March 14, 2005.

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Herring, Susan et al.
"Bridging the gap: a genre analysis of weblogs" January 05, 2004

From abstract: "This paper presents the results of a content analysis of 203 randomly-selected weblogs, comparing the empirically observable features of the corpus with popular claims about the nature of weblogs, and finding them to differ in a number of respects."

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Blood, Rebecca.
The Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining Your Blog July 01, 2002

The first book on weblogs. Largely targeted toward people unfamiliar with blogging.

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Blood, Rebecca
"Weblogs: a history and perspective" September 07, 2000

The history of the weblog and its evolution. Discussion of the genre's protean nature and potential.

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Blood, Rebecca. "Weblogs: A History and Perspective." Rebecca's Pocket. 07 September 2000.

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Blood, Rebecca. "Weblogs: A History and Perspective." We've Got Blog: How Weblogs are Changing Our Culture. Ed. J. Rodzvilla. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 2002. 7-16.

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