[Air-L] Canonical Works on Blogs

[Ben Spigel]

I'm currently writing a lit review for an article discussing networks
of knowledge transfer among blogs. The real topic of study is proving
that the geographical concept of 'buzz' can be transferred over the
Internet.

If this does get published (god willing) it will be one of the first
papers in geography on blogs, so I would like to include a decent
literature review that touches upon some of the major works. The goal
is to cite works which are good at defining blogs and at describing
their more important features and influences on modern society.

The articles on blogs I'm citing now are:

Anjewierden, de Hoog, Brussee and Eifmova, (2006) Detecting knowledge
flows in weblogs, in F. Dau, M.-L. Mugnier, and G. Stumme (eds.)
Common Semantics for Sharing Knowledge: Contributions to ICCS 2005
(Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Conceptual
Structures, ICCS 2005, Kassel, Germany, July 17-22, 2005) Kassel:
Kassel University Press, pp.

Bar-Ilan, J. (2005) Information hub blogs. Journal of Information
Science 31: 297-307.

Wellman, B. (2001) Computer networks as social networks. Science 243: 2031-2034.

Winer, D. (2003) What makes a weblog a weblog.
http://www.scripting.com/davenet/2003/06/18/whatMakesAWeblogAWeblog.html
(not exactly an academic source, but what are you going to do)

  Lin, J., Halavais, A., and Zhang, B. (2007). The blog network in
america: Blogs as
indicators of relationships among us cities. Connections, 27(2):15–23.

Vigas, F. (2005). Blogger' expectations of privacy and accountability:
An initial survey. Journal
of Computer-Mediated Communication, 10(3).

Obviously, there is much more out there on blogs than this. What other
sources would make up a good 'canon of blogs' list?

Thanks,

Ben Spigel
Department of Geography
The Ohio State University