CategoryWebLog

A category of all pages talking about WebLogs on this wiki. Click on the title of this page to see what pages exist.

Terminology:

WebLog -- commenting on news on the web, or news about yourself (see OnlineDiary)
MobLog -- PervasiveComputing and WebLog: blogging from your mobile phone
WikiLog -- merging wiki and weblog technology

On the differences between between weblogs and wikis:

WikiEngines supporting weblog features:

Features weblogs often exhibit:

Blogging tools to track activity in the BlogoSphere:

WebLogTrackers -- listing updated weblogs for other tools to use
TopicExchange by PhillipPearson -- categorizing blog postings using TrackBack pings
BloggingEcosystem by PhillipPearson -- scan WebLogTrackers and find out who links, and who is being linked to
BlogDex -- ranking news articles and other web pages by the number of blogs that link to them
BlogPluck? -- converts WebLogs in RichSiteSummary format to PluckerSoftware documents for offline reading on a HandHeld.
BlogShare? -- buying shares for blogs; as the blog gets referenced more, the value of the share increases
TechnoRati
BlogMatcher -- find related blogs
Google Blog Search

Authoring tools and blog hosting providers:

Engines for full-blown non-personal sites:

Famous CollectiveBlogs or personal weblogs:

SlashDot -- news for geeks, aka as /. -- usually the article is just a link with many people discussing the item (uses SlashCode)
KuroShin -- grew out of /. -- the articles are less geek-oriented and have more content (uses ScoopEngine)
AdvoGato -- free software developers with an OnlineDiary and rating (TrustMetric)
ScriptingNews -- weblog of Dave Winer who is one of the founding fathers of the weblog meme
DropDotOrg and other DrupalEngine sites
MemePool -- interesting because it does not exhibit any of the usual WebLog features
MetaFilter -- a weblog anybody can contribute to

Discussion