I would recommend: danah boyd: "A Blogger's Blog: Exploring the Definition of a Medium" <http://www.danah.org/papers/ABloggersBlog.pdf> -http://www.danah.org/papers/ABloggersBlog.pdf Jill Walker: final version of weblog definition - http://jilltxt.net/archives/blog_theorising/final_version_of_weblog_definition.html Anne