If this does get published (god willing) it will be one of the first papers in geography on blogs, so I would like to include a decent literature review that touches upon some of the major works. The goal is to cite works which are good at defining blogs and at describing their more important features and influences on modern society.
Winer, D. (2003) What makes a weblog a weblog. http://www.scripting.com/davenet/2003/06/18/whatMakesAWeblogAWeblog.html (not exactly an academic source, but what are you going to do)
Lin, J., Halavais, A., and Zhang, B. (2007). The blog network in america: Blogs as indicators of relationships among us cities. Connections, 27(2):15?23.
Vigas, F. (2005). Blogger' expectations of privacy and accountability: An initial survey. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 10(3).
Obviously, there is much more out there on blogs than this. What other sources would make up a good 'canon of blogs' list?
In addition to the following, you should also check out Lois's blog bib, available at: http://loisscheidt.com/linked/bibliographies/Weblog_and_Blog_Bibliography.pd... Glad to see the Lin/Halavais piece in your list; that's nice work. Also, be sure that you spell Fernanda Viegas' name correctly ;-) Good luck... --elijah <dump type=BROG> Herring, S. C., Scheidt, L. A., Bonus, S., and Wright, E. (2004). Bridging the gap: A genre analysis of weblogs. Proceedings of the 37th Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-37). Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society Press. http://www.blogninja.com/DDGDD04.doc Herring, S. C., Kouper, I., Scheidt, L. A., and Wright, E. (2004). Women and children last: The discursive construction of weblogs. In: L. Gurak, S. Antonijevic, L. Johnson, C. Ratliff, and J. Reyman (Eds.), Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs. University of Minnesota. http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/women_and_children.html Herring, S. C., Scheidt, L. A., Bonus, S., and Wright, E. (2005). Weblogs as a bridging genre. Information, Technology & People, 18(2), 142-171. Preprint: http://www.blogninja.com/it&p.final.pdf Herring, S. C., Kouper, I., Paolillo, J. C., Scheidt, L. A., Tyworth, M., Welsch, P., Wright, E., and Yu, N. (2005). Conversations in the blogosphere: An analysis "from the bottom up." Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-38). Los Alamitos: IEEE Press. http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/blogconv.pdf Herring, S. C., and Paolillo, J. C. (2006). Gender and genre variation in weblogs. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 10(4), 439-459. Preprint: http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/jslx.pdf Herring, S. C., Scheidt, L. A., Kouper, I., and Wright, E. (2006). Longitudinal content analysis of weblogs: 2003-2004. In M. Tremayne (Ed.), Blogging, Citizenship, and the Future of Media. London: Routledge. Preprint: http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/tremayne.pdf Herring, S. C., Paolillo, J. C., Ramos Vielba, I., Kouper, I., Wright, E., Stoerger, S., Scheidt, L., and Clark, B. (2007). Language networks on LiveJournal. Proceedings of the 40th Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-40). Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society Press. Preprint: http://blogninja.com/hicss07.pdf Paolillo, J. C., Mercure, S., and Wright, E. (2005). The social semantics of LiveJournal FOAF: Structure and change from 2004 to 2005. In G. Stumme, B. Hoser, C. Schmitz, and H. Alani (Eds.), Proceedings of the ISWC 2005 Workshop on Semantic Network Analysis, Galway, Ireland, November 7, 2005. http://www.blogninja.com/paolillo-mercure-wright.final.pdf Paolillo, J. C., and Wright, E. (2004). The challenges of FOAF characterization. For the 1st Workshop on Friend of a Friend, Social Netowrking, and the Semantic Web, Galway, Ireland, September 1-2 2004. http://stderr.org/~elw/foaf/ or http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/events/foaf-galway/papers/fp/challenges_of_... Paolillo, J. C., and Wright, E. (2005). Social network analysis on the Semantic Web: Techniques and challenges for visualizing FOAF. In V. Geroimenko & C. Chen (Eds.), Visualizing the Semantic Web, 2nd ed. Berlin: Springer. Preprint: http://www.blogninja.com/vsw-draft-paolillo-wright-foaf.pdf Scheidt, L. A. (2006). Adolescent diary weblogs and the unseen audience. In D. Buckingham & R. Willett (Eds.), Digital Generations: Children, Young People and New Media. London: Lawrence Erlbaum. Preprint: http://loisscheidt.com/linked/2006/Adolescent_Diary_Weblogs_and_the_Unseen_A... Scheidt, L. A., and Wright, E. (2004). Common visual design elements of weblogs. In: L. Gurak, S. Antonijevic, L. Johnson, C. Ratliff, and J. Reyman (Eds.), Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs. University of Minnesota. http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/common_visual.html </dump>