So, the blogosphere will be fine, but just another part of a massively enlarged information environment. Here's the difference: We used to be "ink-stained wretches," but with so many media available ...

Technorati has searched through its own search index of the world’s blogs and released new data on the state of the blogosphere in 17 months. And my, there are a lot of us bloggers out there. It’s ...

When I started Jacobin in 2010, my first milestone of the magazine “making it” wasn’t a glossy cover or a TV hit. It was landing on a Crooked Timber sidebar. If you came of age in the mid-to-late ...

Like the drunk in the old joke, searching for his lost keys under the streetlamp because the light is better there, we tend to measure the political influence of new media by the most easily ...

December 21, 2010 Update: An adapted version of this paper, which focuses on the political aspects of the Arabic blogosphere and its role in the networked public ...

Twenty million. That's approaching the gnat population of the Midwest in August. Yet that's where the blogosphere is: 20 million blogs — online personal journals — and multiplying fast. That's a huge ...

Several obits of the late Hunter S. Thompson described him as a precursor of today's bloggers. As The New York Times viewed it "his early work presaged some of the fundamental changes that have rocked ...

Blogging is growing up as a career, and its practitioners are growing up, too, according to Technorati’s new “State of the Blogosphere” report. Blogging is also overlapping mainstream media in ...

Depending on which numbers you source or believe, all reports agree that the blogosphere continues to expand globally. As the leading blog directory and search engine, Technorati maintains a coveted ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...