• SportsBlogs.org, which runs five sports blogs
• ERE Blog Network, recruitment and human resources blogs
• iVillage, which has four blogs including the Daily Babbler
• Blog Communications, which has three blogs including the Blog Street Journal
• History News Network which has ten active blogs
• The Village Voice, which has five blogs
• Canada.com, which has four blogs including the Strange Blog and Web Junkie
• Toronto Star, which has eight blogs.

Matt: Well the same thing that makes us attractive to normal people -- it's easy to setup, very scalable, easy to use -- also make WordPress attractive to less savory parts of the blogosphere. If there was something I could do make it harder for them without hurting our normal users, I would. But that's a slippery slope, and Open Source is specifically designed so you can't discriminate in the license against any one party. Even if they're scum.

"Nielsen is considering more regular research on the US blogging space as the market becomes increasingly influential, but revealed that Australian blogging activity remained too small to measure as yet with a handful of news blogging sites sitting 'just below the radar'."

B: Anyway, we do tease at Blogebrity about your lack of "credit" info. Many of your posts can be found on other blogs and tech sites around the time you post them. What's your reasoning behind not posting vias?
K: This has a really lame answer.
K: MT doesn't have a via field and for the remaindered links, I like to keep my data as highly structured as I can. No html allowed in the "extra" text. (This probably makes no sense whatsoever.)
K: I do via links in my main posts, and i just switched how I do the remainders and I'm now doing vias.
B: Very cool to hear.
K: I also think obsessive sourcing of material that doesn't necessarily need it can get in the way of people trying to disseminate it. If your via has a via, do you source that? What about your via's via's via?
K: At some point it gets ridiculous.
B: I know what you mean. I'm also copying that paragraph to paste whenever I forget where I found something.

Derogatory comments about employers and fellow workers, leaks of proprietary information and other objectionable material broadcast into cyberspace have led to firings and lawsuits in dozens of cases nationwide.

Right now the big four are all dancing with the idea of putting blogs on the top level—I can’t wait to see which company has the vision to do it first. Google might do it with search, Microsoft might do it with Filter/Start.com… Yahoo could put a "add Engadget to your My Yahoo page" on the top level, and AOL has got a pretty slick RSS reader and it would be sick if they connected it to AIM and ICQ.

When I first started I kept up with the so-called A-List bloggers because I thought I was supposed to. But as I went along, I found that Self-Referential Quid Pro Quo stuff ungodly boring and nauseating.

Popularity is not forever. But the question is how did you maintain that popularity during your time without sacrificing your values, beliefs and individuality? If you are an upcoming popular blogger, would you choose to be popular at the expense of others, or at all times be magnanimous in your victories?

But thanks to Bloglines, I get to read the same article 3-4 times in the course of a day or so, as our A-listers quote each other often adding little extra value.

Ms. Klein's blog is a voyeur's playground, with many photos of Ms. Klein, her friends and the swanky places they go. But the allure is muted by accounts of Ms. Klein's childhood summers at fat camp, the husband she says cheated on her when she was pregnant, her subsequent abortion and her ongoing quest for love. Nothing, it seems, is too private not to share with readers.

That technique doesn't work anymore. There are simply too many people trying that technique now so there's no way any one blogger can keep up with it all (A-list or no). Here's what does work: be interesting. Get 10 other bloggers to link to you. Forget the A-listers. They don't matter anymore. Well, they don't matter as much.

Finally, I'd like to touch on the blogging/journalism thing because this is a real good case study. In a prior blog, Scoble defends his own methodology for writing, saying that he never claimed to be a journalist but that "I do occassionally do journalism here." Perhaps we could use a little icon so we know how to recognize when he's doing it.