Whatever you may think of the publishing revolution known as blogging, the advent of technology for posting “top-of-mind” thoughts to a Web site is an intriguing development in Internet history. Weblogs, or “blogs” for short, dramatically ease the process of uploading simple kinds of content, thus facilitating a loosely organized kind of collaborative publishing.
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RSS: Gateway to News and Blog Content
Clickz Today> RSS search engines can help locate feeds to subscribe to. The real power is they offer on-demand searching of blogs, news, and other information.
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Weblogs Unite to Protest Detained Iranian Blogger
OJR.com> Another journalist is detained by the Iranian government in Tehran. Seems like the same old story of a crackdown on independent media by a hard-line administration. But this time, the detainee, Sina Motallebi, is different. His roots are in print journalism, as a film critic, later covering politics for a reformist paper Ham Mihan, and the arts for Hayat-é-No (subsequently shut down).
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Start-up talks up new blog service
CNet News.com> Six Apart, which sells popular Weblog tool Movable Type, is launching a new hosting service to compete with Google’s blogging unit.
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The Blog Herald Launched
blogherald.com> Welcome to The Blog Herald, the internets newest resource on the topic of web logs and blogging. We will strive to provide the latest and best news and views on the world of blogging from the Blog Herald and external sources.