Blogs and Blogging: Journalists' Toolkit

A training site for multimedia and online journalists

WordPress

• WordPress.com -- Set up a free blog here
• WordPress.org -- Download and install if you have your own Web hosting
• WordPress Codex -- The instruction manual
• WordPress Themes -- Pick something nice

Get started with blogging, stress-free

Use These Free Blog Tools

• Google Analytics
• FeedBurner
• Technorati
• Site Meter
• ShinyStat

Resources for Bloggers

• Legal Guide for Bloggers from the Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents from Reporters Without Borders
• Bloggers' Code of Ethics from CyberJournalist
• Weblog Ethics from Rebecca Blood's 2002 book
• History of Weblogs (2000) from Rebecca Blood's Web site
• What Makes a Weblog a Weblog? by Dave Winer (2003) -- I like how this starts with the nub of the matter ("The personalities of the writers come through") and moves on to define many technical features of blogs, such as permalinks and trackback.

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