Technorati was founded to help bloggers succeed by collecting, highlighting, and distributing the global online conversation. Founded as the first blog search engine, Technorati has expanded to a full service media company providing services to the blogs and social media sites and connecting them with advertisers who want to join the conversation, and whose online properties introduce blog content to millions of consumers.

BlogPulse is an automated trend discovery system for blogs. Blogs, a term that is short for weblogs, represent the fastest-growing medium of personal publishing and the newest method of individual expression and opinion on the Internet. BlogPulse applies machine-learning and natural-language processing techniques to discover trends in the highly dynamic world of blogs.

Electronic Frontier Foundation's basic roadmap to the legal issues you may confront as a blogger, to let you know you have rights, and to encourage you to weblog freely. - Read more

ProBlogger is dedicated to helping other bloggers learn the skills of blogging, share their own experiences and promote the blogging medium.

Articles, popular weblog profiles, tutorials, a forum, FAQ, and a weblog directory. - Read more

Banner for those who want to show they oppose corporate ads on blogs. - Read more

Topical directory of blogging resources including templates, ad services and communities. - Read more

One day annually, blog surfers will find themselves leaping and discovering new, unknown Blogs, celebrating the discovery of new people and new bloggers. - Read more

Esoteric way to describe different types of bloggers. - Read more

All about participatory journalism: how audiences are changing the future of news and information. - Read more

An online, edited collection of essays which explores discursive, visual, social, and other communicative features of weblogs. - Read more

Social software news. Community portals online. - Read more

Aggregates books that are mentioned on weblogs and provides insight into what the weblog community is reading at the moment. - Read more

Blogging about blogs in business, marketing, public relations, and search engine optimization for successful entrepreneurs - Read more

Catalogs efforts to answer questions about the size and nature of the blogosphere. - Read more

A tongue-in-cheek look at fame in the blogosphere. - Read more

A conference about weblogs with a focus on weblogs in journalism, education, science, business and politics. - Read more

Reports on blogging news and trends. - Read more

Facts, news, interviews and discussion on corporate and business blogging. - Read more

Reading between the lines of Rebecca Mead's November 2000 New Yorker article on Weblog culture. - Read more