Mark Glaser's Guide to the Blogosphere
It's not recent: already seven months! But the Mark Glaser's Guide still remains a real "joystick" to move into the Blogosphere. More than 30 blogs or assimilated sites are listed with a direct link to each site... Thanks to the Online Journalism Review.
Mark Glaser has made a distinction between the "opinionated individual Weblogs, the "group or community Weblogs" and the "media business Weblogs".
See the full map on the Online Journalism Review website (June 2003).
Excerpts from the OJR article:
"This past year has seen the world of Weblogs, aka the blogosphere, grow in power and stature, if not to the general public, then to the other media. So we've created a graphical depiction of what I believe to be the most influential blogs, pushing the direction of media coverage and perhaps even public policy..."
About the map classification:
"The bigger the mouth, the more influential the Weblog. The position of the mouth shows its political orientation (left or right) and whether it's doing more blogging (top) or more journalism (bottom). "More blogging" means a focus on linking, summarizing and quips. "More journalism" means more original commentary, reporting, and perhaps a journalism background. Note: Drudge and Romenesko do not consider their publications blogs."
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