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December 11, 2006
Page last updated: December 18, 2006The sources on this page all represent major contributions to the field; for one thing, each has been cited at least 10 times. Items are arranged reverse-chronologically (of course!) in order of publication. If you're running Javascript, you can browse the hyperlinked cites and citations.
If you're completely lost, take a look at my list of the
20 most-cited blog articles or browse the blogosphere studies
master resource list.
Herring, Susan et al.
"Conversations in the Blogosphere: An Analysis 'From the Bottom Up'"
January 03, 2005
An analysis of the non-A-List blogs. From the abstract: "This study empirically investigates the extent to which, and in what patterns, blogs are interconnected, taking as its point of departure randomly-selected blogs."
Herring, Susan C., Inna Kouper, John C. Paolillo, Lois Ann Scheidt, Michael Tyworth, Peter Welsch, Elijah Wright, and Ning Yu. "
Conversations in the Blogosphere: An Analysis 'From the Bottom Up'." Proc. of the 38th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'05), 3-6 January, Hawaii. Los Alamitos: IEEE Press. 2005: 107b.
Labels: Elijah Wright, Inna Kouper, John Paolillo, Lois Ann Scheidt, Michael Tyworth, Ning Yu, Peter Welsch, Susan Herring
Nardi, Bonnie et al.
"Why We Blog"
December 03, 2004
The results of an enthographic study of a small sample of ordinary bloggers. Emphasis on the range of motivations driving individuals to create and maintain blogs.
Nardi, Bonnie, Diane Schiano, Michelle Gumbrecht, and Luke Swartz. "
Why we blog" Communications of the ACM. 47.12 (December 2004): 41-46.
Widely circulated in draft form as:Nardi, Bonnie, Diane Schiano, Michelle Gumbrecht, and Luke Swartz. "
'I'm Blogging This': A Closer Look at Why People Blog." Communications of the ACM. Forthcoming.
Labels: Bonnie Nardi, Diane Schiano, identity, Luke Swartz, Michelle Gumbrecht, social aspects, survey
Blood, Rebecca
"Hammer, Nail: How Blogging Software Reshapes the Online Community"
December 02, 2004
The evolution of blogs in response to software like Blogger.
Related metablog posts:
The Best of Blood,
If Blood says she loves you...Blood, Rebecca. "
How Blogging Software Reshapes the Online Community." Communications of the ACM. 47.12 (December 2004): 53-55.
Alternate cite:Blood, Rebecca. "
Hammer, Nail: How Blogging Software Reshaped the Online Community." Rebecca's Pocket. December 2004.
Labels: Blogger, history, Rebecca Blood
Nardi, Bonnie et al.
"Blogging as social activity, or, would you let 900 million people read your diary?"
November 06, 2004
An enthnographic study of lesser-known individual or small group blogs. Discusses why and how people create blogs, audience-blogger relationships, and some blog design.
Nardi, Bonnie et al. "
Blogging as social activity, or, would you let 900 million people read your diary?" Proc. of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work, Chicago. 6-10 November, 2004. 222-231.
Labels: Bonnie Nardi, Diane Schiano, diary blogs, identity, Michelle Gumbrecht, social aspects, survey, U.S. blogs
Miller, Carolyn R. and Dawn Shepherd
"Blogging as Social Action: A Genre Analysis of the Weblog"
June 01, 2004
From intro: "Our aim in this genre analysis of the blog is to explore the emergent culture of the early 21st century — as revealed by the self-organized communities that support blogging, the recurrent rhetorical exigences that arise there, and the rhetorical roles (or "subject positions") they support and make possible."
Related metablog posts:
Notes on Miller's "Blogging as Social Action".
Miller, Carolyn R. and Dawn Shepherd. "
Blogging as Social Action: A Genre Analysis of the Weblog"
Into the Blogosphere. Ed. Laura J. Gurak, Smiljana Antonijevic, Laurie Johnson, Clancy Ratliff, and Jessica Reyman. June 2004.
Labels: blogosphere, Carolyn Miller, Dawn Shepherd, genres, identity, social aspects
Schiano, Diane, et. al.
"Blogging by the Rest of Us"
March 22, 2004
An introduction to general individual blogging practices based on a very small survey sample.
Schiano, Diane, et. al. "
Blogging by the Rest of Us."
International Seminar on Learning and Technology at Work, Institute of Education, London, March 22-24 2004.
Alternate cite:
Schiano, Diane, et. al. "
Blogging by the rest of us."
Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 24-29 April 2004, Vienna. Published in CHI '04 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, ACM Press, New York: 2004. 1143-1146.
Labels: Bonnie Nardi, Diane Schiano, diary blogs, genres, Luke Swartz, Michelle Gumbrecht, survey
Nussbaum, Emily
"My so-called blog"
January 11, 2004
A journalistic ethnography of teenage bloggers.
Related metablog posts:
Nussbaum's NYT article.
Nussbaum, Emily. "
My So-Called Blog."
The New York Times Magazine, 11 January 2004.
Labels: diary blogs, Emily Nussbaum, social aspects, teen blogs, U.S. blogs
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."
Related metablog posts:
Bridging the Gap: Surprisingly Worthless,
Bridging the Gap: Not so bad.
Herring, Susan C., Lois A. Scheidt, Sabrina Bonus, and Elijah Wright.
Bridging the gap: A genre analysis of weblogs. Proc. of the 37th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 5-8 January 2004, Big Island, Hawaii. Los Alamitos: IEEE Press, 2004.
Labels: blogosphere, genres, history, statistics, Susan Herring
Lindahl, Charlie, and Elise Blount
"Weblogs: simplifying web publishing"
November 01, 2003
An introduction to blogging, focusing mainly on RSS and blog-creation software.
Lindahl, Charlie, and Elise Blount. "
Weblogs: simplifying web publishing"
Computer 36.11 (November 2003): 114-116.
Labels: definitions
Henning, Jeffrey
"The Blogging Iceberg - Of 4.12 Million Hosted Weblogs, Most Little Seen, Quickly Abandoned"
October 04, 2003
A seminal report using survey data to challenge some popular misconceptions about weblogs.
Henning, Jeffrey.
The Blogging Iceberg - Of 4.12 Million Hosted Weblogs, Most Little Seen, Quickly Abandoned.
Perseus Development Corp. October 4, 2003.
Labels: diary blogs, Jeffrey Henning, Perseus, statistics, survey
Walker, Jill
"Final version of weblog definition"
June 28, 2003
A 500-word definition of the blog.
Walker, Jill. "
Final version of weblog definition."
jill/txt. 28 June 2003.
Labels: definitions, genres, Jill Walker
Winer, Dave
"What makes a weblog a weblog?"
May 23, 2003
A lengthy feature-based definition of the blog, more a collection of possible attributes than anything, really.
Winer, Dave. "
What makes a weblog a weblog?"
Weblogs At Harvard Law. 23 May 2003.
Labels: Dave Winer, definitions
Kumar, Ravi et al.
"On the Bursty Evolution of Blogspace"
May 20, 2003
A relatively early attempt to come up with algorithms for tracking and measuring the blogosphere, focused mainly on coming up with the process. From the conclusion: "Around the end of 2001, Blogspace began a dramatic increase in connectedness, and in local-scale community structure. Within those local communities, it also began to exhibit dramatic increases in the occurrence of bursty link creation behavior."
Kumar, Ravi, Jasmine Novak, Prabhakar Raghavan, and Andrew Tomkins. "
On the Bursty Evolution of Blogspace." The Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference, 20-24 May, 2003. Budapest, Hungary. Published in World Wide Web. 8.2 (June 2005): 159-178.
Labels: Andrew Tomkins, blogosphere, Jasmine Novak, mapping, Prabhakar Raghavan, Ravi Kumar, social aspects, statistics
Krishnamurthy, Sandeep
"The multidimensionality of blog conversations: The virtual enactment of September 11"
October 13, 2002
Presents a novel blog classification method and, using Metafilter's response to 9/11 as an example, examines how collaborative news blogs react to traumatic events.
Related metablog post:
But Dan, you had the power the whole time.
Krishnamurthy, Sandeep. "The multidimensionality of blog conversations: The virtual enactment of September 11." AOIR Internet Research 3.0: Net/Work/Theory. Maastricht, The Netherlands. October 13-16 2002.
Labels: definitions, Metafilter, news blogs, Sandeep Krishnamurthy
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.
Related metablog posts:
If Blood says she loves you...Blood, Rebecca.
The Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining Your Blog. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 2002.
Labels: blogosphere, definitions, history, Rebecca Blood, techniques
Hourihan, Meg
"What We're Doing When We Blog"
June 13, 2002
A list of elements all or most blogs have in common.
Hourihan, M. "
What We're Doing When We Blog."
O'Reilly WebDev Center. June 13, 2002.
Labels: definitions, Meg Hourihan
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.
Related metablog posts:
The Best of Blood.
Blood, Rebecca. "
Weblogs: A History and Perspective."
Rebecca's Pocket. 07 September 2000.
Later published as:
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.
Labels: Blogger, genres, history, Rebecca Blood
Barger, Jorn
"Weblog resources FAQ"
September 16, 1999
An early weblog FAQ. Commonly referred to without being actually cited.
Barger, Jorn. "
Weblog resources FAQ." Robot Wisdom. 16 September, 1999.
Labels: definitions, history, Jorn Barger
Barrett, Cameron
"Anatomy of a Weblog"
January 26, 1999
An early introduction to the "weblog" concept. Barrett goes on to describe various other blogs.
Barrett, Cameron. "
Anatomy of a Weblog."
CamWorld. 26 January 1999.
Later published as:Barrett, Cameron. "Anatomy of a Weblog."
We've Got Blog: How Weblogs are Changing Our Culture. Ed. J. Rodzvilla. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 2002. 25-27.
Labels: Cameron Barrett, definitions
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