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.

Karl has suggested that the final presentation cover the following:

1. What are the main opportunities for RBI – either for individual magazines/websites/markets or for RBI as a whole?
2. What benefits could RBI get (e.g. increased web traffic, new user revenue, new advertiser offerings . . .) from these opportunities?
3. What are RBI’s main strengths – and weaknesses?
4. Where in your view is RBI now?
5. Where should RBI aim to be?
6. What should RBI do?
7. What should editors do?

It would be a good idea to start to consider these things now….

The huge free web encyclopedia Wikipedia defines a weblog as: a web log or simply a blog, is a web application which contains periodic posts on a common webpage. These posts are often but not necessarily in reverse chronological order. Such a website would typically be accessible to any Internet user. The term “blog” came into common use as a way of avoiding confusion with the term server log. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogging