Blogs and bloggers: Background resources

Below is a series of links to further information about blogs and blogging as discussed in my workshop at the Shape PUblic Affairs conference in Lisbon.

They are intended to provide further reading to those who attended the event, but could also be of wider  interest.

Any thoughts, comments, questions or further links, as ever gratefully received. Either submit at the end of this page, contact via email at sarahhartley2004@yahoo.co.uk or choose your platform from the contacts page.

Recommended reading
The annual Technorati State of the Blogosphere reports are an essential way of tracking how blogging is developing. It comes in four parts;
1. Who are the bloggers?
2. The what and why of blogging.
3. The how of blogging.
4. Blogging for profit.
5. Brands enter the blogosphere.

There’s constantly updated information and reports about blogging available on my delicious bookmarks tagged blogs, feel free to join my network and share your own too.

For good blogs about blogging, online journalism and mainstream publishing, please check out my blogroll on the right of the page. This is an ever-growing list of links to useful sources of information on the subject.

How you’ve been blogged
As far as the confreence goes, so far I’ve only seen this post from fellow speaker Charlie Beckett; NATO plans invasion of the internet.
Let me know if you come across more.

However, a scan of people who are currently using the micro-blogging platform Twitter and mentioning NATO throws up some interesting results. Just shows how many people are engaging with NATO in some way using this digital tool.