What research is there on blogging? I've copied some below but there must be more...
Allan, Stuart (2004) News Culture, Open University
Blood, Rebecca. Weblogs: a history and perspective, Rebecca's Pocket, September 7, 2000,
http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html
Gillmor, Dan (2004) We The Media, O'Reilly
Hermida, Alfred. The BBC Goes Blogging: Is ‘Auntie’ Finally Listening?”, 9th Annual International Symposium on Online Journalism, University of Texas, 2008
http://online.journalism.utexas.edu/2008/papers/Hermida.pdf
Lowrey, Wilson. Mapping the blogging-journalism relationship, Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism 2006; 7; 477
MacManus, Richard, Mixed Messages in The Blogging Landscape, ReadWriteWeb, 27 July 2008,
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/mixed_messages_blogging.php
Matheson, Donald. Weblogs and the Epistemology of the News. New Media & Society 2004; 6; 443
Lowrey & Latta. The Routines of Blogging, in Paterson, Chris & Domingo, David (eds) (2008) Making Online News, Peter Lang
Perez, Sarah. The future of blogging revealed, ReadWriteWeb, August 4 2008
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_future_of_blogging_reveale...
Robinson, Susan. The mission of the j-blog: Recapturing journalistic authority online, Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism 2006; 7; 65
Singer, Jane. The political j-blogger: 'Normalising' a new media form to fit old norms and practices, Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism; 2005, 6; 173
Wall, Melissa. 'Blogs of war': Weblogs as news, Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism; 2005, 6; 153