This may come as a shock to all of the readers here, but blogging is something we're passionate about around these parts. So this Best Of is a mixture of some amazing toolboxes filled with resources for you to use, and some stories about the history and future of blogging.
News
Blogging’s 10th Birthday: Are We Journalists Yet? - Pete asks an appropriate question on the supposed 10th anniversary of blogging: Are we journalists yet? What will it take for us to be taken as a serious medium, just transmitted in a non-traditional media?
Blogging Pays, But Not By the Hour - It's always amusing when the traditional media gets wind of what they think is a story they don't fully comprehend. Here it was the idea that bloggers are getting insanely rich and that the big guns, this site included, was earning just insane money. There's no denying we earn money, but they seem to forget things like hosting... paying the employees (such as myself)... development and so on. And don't even get us all started on the number of hours we put in each week (hint: It's over 40 by quite a lot). Still, an amusing article about how blogging is growing up.
Blogrush: Traffic Generator or Pyramid Scheme? - There's been a lot of talk about BlogRush, some question how good it really is, then others are shocked when 10,000 users get unceremoniously dumped.
This Disaster Will Be Twitterized - Blogging, moblogging, microblogging, photoblogging... we've all become "citizen journalists", we've all been given a power that the human race has never seen before. With millions of bloggers the world over, the next disaster WILL be Twitterized, and it will probably be better reporting than we see from the major news outlets.
Xanga - 27 Million Bloggers and Counting - It's hard to believe that this platform alone has 27 million bloggers... is that anyone on the face of the planet now not blogging?
Toolboxes
40+ Firefox Add-ons for High Speed Blogging - Firefox is highly versatile, and it can be used to speed up all of your blogging duties with just a few easy add-ons.
40+ Free Blog Hosts - There are thousands of new blogs started every day, and a goodly number of them start at places like Blogger and LiveJournal. Throw your hat in the ring and give it a shot with these free suggestions.
BLOG DIRECTORY TOOLBOX: 30+ Blog Directories - Once you've got a blog, you need to let the world know about it, and blog directories are an essential part of doing just that.
Blogging Toolbox: 120+ Resources for Bloggers - Tools for numerous blogging platforms such as WordPress and Movable Type.
