http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,59424,00.html
Bloggers Gain Libel Protection - Xeni Jardin, Wired


The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last Tuesday that Web loggers,
website operators and e-mail list editors can't be held responsible for
libel for information they republish, extending crucial First Amendment
protections to do-it-yourself online publishers. Online free speech
advocates praised the decision as a victory. The ruling effectively
differentiates conventional news media, which can be sued relatively
easily for libel, from certain forms of online communication such as
moderated e-mail lists. One implication is that DIY publishers like
bloggers cannot be sued as easily.

http://www.blogroots.com
a blogger's resource

http://www.elearningpost.com
This blog is for topics of elearning

http://blogdex.media.mit.edu/
the weblog diffusion index (will rank blogs)

http://www.clickz.com/media/agency_strat/print.php/1038101
This is Cameron Barrett’s 1999 reference to blogs

http://www.instapundit.com/

http://www.daypop.com/
lots of stats on blogs; searches blogs

http://blog.ragingcow.com/
Dr Pepper/7up marketing

http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/blogger.html

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/167/business/Companies_get_into_weblog_act+.shtml
Companies get into weblog act - Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe

It was bound to happen: Corporate America has discovered the blog. The
proof was at hand during last week's ClickZ Weblog Business Strategies
2003 Conference & Expo. The sponsors had set aside a smallish conference
room at the Sheraton Boston, and ended up having to knock out the
collapsible rear wall and lug in more tables and chairs....

Companies have begun to
recognize the potential power of what buffs like to call ''the blog-
osphere.'' Consider: Every business needs to know what its employees
know. ......
Rock Regan, chief information officer of the state of Connecticut and a
guest at last week's conference, is deploying a weblog in his office to
get the techies talking. But he's trying to keep the conversation
focused.
...
Businesses are also looking at blogging to their customers. Companies
like the software maker Macromedia Inc. encourage employees to set up
public weblogs to provide information to users of the companies'
products. The travel website
biznettravel.com uses a blog to post links to the latest travel-related
news, complete with snarky commentary. It's a clever way to give
Internet companies a human face. But is it really blogging? Sure, the
corporate weblogs use the same technologies, but their hearts are not
really in it. The best blogs don't just deliver authoritative
information; they resonate with the personalities of their creators.
......
Still, there's no help for it. Just as e-mail, born as an academic
convenience, is now a marketing tool for human growth hormone, the blogs
are bound to go commercial. Who knows? Maybe a few will even get it
right. There are good TV commercials, after all.

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030520.wwente0520/BNStory/National/

Iranian jailed over Weblog - MARGARET WENTE, Globe and Mail


On April 19, Hossein Derakhshan, a young Iranian living in Toronto, got
an alarming e-mail from a friend of his in Tehran. The friend, Sina
Montallebi, wrote that he had been summoned to appear before the
religious police. The next day, Mr. Montallebi became the first person
in history to be jailed for the crime of keeping a Weblog. "They did it
to frighten people," says Mr. Derakhshan, who came to Canada two years
ago.

The story of the Internet and the mullahs is a fascinating study in how
technology can subvert even the most repressive of regimes.

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