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Many bloggers, particularly those engaged in participatory journanism, differentiate themselves from the mainstream media, while others are members of that media working through a different channel. Some institutions see blogging as a means of "getting around the filter" and pushing messages directly to the public. Some critics worry that bloggers respect neither copyright nor the role of the mass media in presenting society with credible news. Bloggers and other contributors to user generated content are behind Time magazine naming
their 2006 person of the year as "you".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weblogs


a weblog is part of communities. No weblog stands alone, they are relative to each other and to the world. The Link and Think project, as an example, is part of the weblog community and part of the World AIDS Day community. My weblog, Scripting News, is part of the weblog community and part of the community of independent developers, particularly those using scripting environments. The same can be said of most weblogs that gain audiences, they connect people together using the Web through common interests.
http://oldweblogscomblog.scripting.com/personalWebPublishingCommunities
What are weblogs?,11/16/01, Dave Winer


Research approaches range from personal reflections, to critical analyses of segments of blogs, to corpus studies of blogs, to quantitative studies of blogging activity. Building on each other by offering both in-depth descriptions and broader pictures, these articles provide a wide-ranging look at the rhetorical implications of blogging.
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/introduction.html
Introduction: Weblogs, Rhetoric, Community, and Culture,Laura Gurak, Smiljana Antonijevic, Laurie Johnson, Clancy Ratliff, and Jessica Reyman, University of Minnesota



Blogs can add a human voice to the library's web presence.
Blogs can encourage interaction between a library and the people it serves.
This interaction can transform the typical flow of information into a shared exchange between people with like minded goals.
http://www.walkingpaper.org/presentation/
Weblogs and Community:The Right Questions to Ask, September 2005, Aaron Schmidt


A blog (a portmanteau of web log) is a website where entries are written in choronological order and commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weblogs