Micro Persuasion quotes a report that one in three Americans visited blogs in the first quarter of this year.

Hill & Knowlton, the PR giant, has announced an effort to get the firm blogging.

Between the Lines has an interesting discussion of fact-checking and its relationship to the debate about the difference between bloggers and journalists.

The BBC reports that Tim Berners Lee, the father of the internet, believes blogs are closer than anything else to his original vision of a read/write web.

BlogWrite for CEOs has a post on how Steve Rubel, the author of the Micro Persuasion blog, one of the largest on the web, fits in prolific posting with his day job as a PR.

If Bloggers Had Been Around Throughout History is a light-hearted attempt to assess the impact that bloggers would have had if they had been around at various key moments of history – bit of a US bias, but quite amusing none-the-less.

Fast Company Now is the blog from Fast Company Magazine – one example of traditional media in the blogsphere.

A blog doesn’t need a clever name is actually a very good example of what a blog can be. It is wide-ranging in its subject matter, the posts tend to be short – though sometimes they can be longer – and they are very full of links. This is the critical thing: a blog is a comment on what others are saying and doing and point to other places. “A blog doesn’t need a clever name” gives a really good sense of the original spirit of the blog.

A good place to start is Technorati or Bloglines which are specialist search engines which track blogs. Browse both sites and see what you can find. The “most popular” sections are a good starting point.