What's a blog?                                                                                     < identical page to bookmark >

An abbreviation for web log, a blog allows instantaneous, uncomplicated publishing to the world wide web. Blogs are online personal web link journals, comprised of postings (by one or many individuals) made day and night while surfing the web, as interesting things catch a blogger's attention. Many blogs are maintained by well known pundits and authors. Blog postings contain hyperlinks to articles and sites, with brief descriptions by the blogger. To take advantage of this rich information resource, the skill is to skim the cream off the top, where indexes come in...

These blog indexes will help you stay abreast of hot topics in Interactive Technology

blogdex       metafilter       popdex          

...as well as intellectual property issues, and every other conceivable subject. Robotic blog indexing software (at the above sites) reads thousands of public blogs every second, continually ranking, for you, which web links were referred to most frequently. Very hip, literally—you find out what is capturing collective attention of thousands upon thousands of savvy web surfers. These are links to high level blog indexes Interactivity Consultants recommends.

For Interactivity Consultants' clients

Interactivity Consultants maintains private weblogs where we track specific topics relevant to your needs. These require a user name and password for access.

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Starting your own blog

If you want to start your own blog, About.com has reviewed four top weblog/blog software tools. Howard Rheingold authored "Smart Mobs, the Next Social Revolution" which discusses social implications of this free, fast evolving, interactive information source.