Where News, Journalism and Weblogs Intersect

The following links provide information about new forms of personal journalism — including weblogs, collaborative news sites, personal broadcasting, and more — as well as pointers to examples of each genre. Have other links you’d like to suggest? Tell us.

• The New Media Resources collection at the University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism has published an earlier version of this page.

The published articles are presented, weblog-like, with the most recent articles first.

February 2010: Note: I’ve left the dead links intact below to show how much link rot has occurred since 2003:

Weblogs

Introduction to blogging:

Blogging for Beginners: What You Need to Know to Start a Weblog
Jeremy Wagstaff
Wall Street Journal, July 10, 2002
Introduction to weblogging.

Blog Nation
James Wolcott
Business 2.0, May 2002
Random musings on the addictive nature of weblogs.

Business pros flock to Weblogs
Martin Wolk
MSNBC, April 15, 2002
Smart look at how businesses have begun to incorporate weblogs.

Targeted serendipity
Anni Layne Rodgers
Fast Company, March 2002
A timely and intelligent look at weblogging.

Blogging
Jeremy Wagstaff
Loosewire blog, February 2002
A general look at weblogging.

A Day-by-Day In the Life
Leslie Walker
Washington Post, May 16, 2001
An accessible beginner’s guide to weblogs, with a good sidebar on weblog resources.

Been ‘blogging’? Web discourse hits higher level
Glenn Fleishman
Seattle Times, April 1, 2001
A good primer on the weblog phenomenon by a blogging tech journalist.

Invasion of the ‘Blog’: A Parallel Web of Personal Journals
David F. Gallagher
New York Times, Dec. 28, 2000
Well-done piece that interviews the founders of Pyra and Blogger.

You’ve got blog: You’ve Got Blog How to put your business, your boyfriend, and your life on-line
Rebecca Mead
The New Yorker, Nov. 13, 2000
Piece does a wonderful job of explaining the culture of personal weblogs to folks who aren’t especially tech-savvy. And don’t miss the Deconstruction of ‘You’ve Got Blog’ on Fawny.org.

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Almost every day I get queries about whether a particular report or rumor circulating on the Internet is true or not. Not sure whether that e-mail you got contains the truth, a shred of truth, or is a complete fabrication? Here are some of the best resources for verifying or discounting possible Internet hoaxes.

Snopes2
The best of the bunch.

Hoax info from Internet 101
Advisories and warnings about hoaxes, myths, chain letters, bogus virus alerts and more.

Vmyths
Learn about computer virus myths, hoaxes, urban legends, hysteria, and the implications if you believe in them.

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