In July 2004 an anonymous blogger revealed his identity when he allowed his photograph to be taken at the Democratic National Convention. “Atrios,” the writer of a prominent left-wing blog, Eschaton, ...

The question when examining the state of the blogosphere is whether or not the cup is half full or half empty? The answer lies in the nature of circumstances: If drinking from the glass, it is then ...

So, the blogosphere will be fine, but just another part of a massively enlarged information environment. Here's the difference: We used to be "ink-stained wretches," but with so many media available ...

Technorati has searched through its own search index of the world’s blogs and released new data on the state of the blogosphere in 17 months. And my, there are a lot of us bloggers out there. It’s ...

Like the drunk in the old joke, searching for his lost keys under the streetlamp because the light is better there, we tend to measure the political influence of new media by the most easily ...

When I started Jacobin in 2010, my first milestone of the magazine “making it” wasn’t a glossy cover or a TV hit. It was landing on a Crooked Timber sidebar. If you came of age in the mid-to-late ...

Twenty million. That's approaching the gnat population of the Midwest in August. Yet that's where the blogosphere is: 20 million blogs — online personal journals — and multiplying fast. That's a huge ...

December 21, 2010 Update: An adapted version of this paper, which focuses on the political aspects of the Arabic blogosphere and its role in the networked public ...

While just about everyone agrees that the rise of blogdom is a positive force, the care and feeding of bloggers still causes a surprising degree of static. Publicists increasingly court them, but are ...

Several obits of the late Hunter S. Thompson described him as a precursor of today's bloggers. As The New York Times viewed it "his early work presaged some of the fundamental changes that have rocked ...