Part One: Getting Started

• What are Weblogs?
  
  
• What Makes a Blog a Blog?
  
  
• Why do I want/need a blog?
  
  
• Brief history of Blogging
  
  
• The Blogger Ethos and the Blogosphere
  
  

There are an infinite number of ways to place Blogs into different categories, all of which are somewhat misleading.  Here is one attempt, meant only to demosnstrate the variety of outlets grouped together under the umbrella term "Blog". The examples are culled from some of the blogs I visit regularly.

Experiencial (on-line diary) - Redhead, Wiggles

Referencial (lots of links) Robot Widsom, Fark

Analytic (expert/subject area) -Archeology, Lessig

Educational - Praxis, The Sex Tutorial Weblog

Colaborative - Volokh, WIKIS

Actually, there are as many kinds of blogs as there are blogs in existence. As Dave likes to say, "When the Blogging movement succeeds there will be 200 million political parties in America." Start your party now!

10 Commandments of Blogging

The other night I wrestled with this one for several hours.  Finally it got me in the old sleeper hold and the next thing I knew it was tomorrow.  And I had the answer. To paraphrase Jonathan Zittrain:

The Only Commandment in Blogging is that there are No Commandments in Blogging

Either you trust the Universe, or you don't

Today ANYONE can have their own blog.  To see how easy it is to create your own blog, using the Harvard Law School's implementation of the Manila blogging tool, continue on to

PART TWO