Blogging Resources

News Sources

• Getting started with RSS Feeds and News Readers
• LA Times
• RSS feeds from the LA Times
• NY Times
• RSS feeds from the NY Times
• Washington Post
• RSS feeds from the Washington Post
• Chicago Tribune
• Miami Herald
• Yahoo News
• Yahoo! RSS feeds – subscribe by category
• BBC RSS feeds subscribe by category
• Google News – subscribe to RSS feeds of results of keyword searches.
• LexisNexis News – news portal

Finding Other Blogs and Posts Related to Recent News

• Blogrunner – Blogrunner monitors news articles and blog posts and tracks news events as they develop across the Web.
• Technorati – Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs.
• Google Blog Search – google search engine optimized for searching blogs.
• Icerocket – blog search engine
• Global Voices – Global Voices aggregates, curates, and amplifies the global conversation online.
• Blogs in Political Science and Political Theory – A list of Political Science blogs.

Tools for managing news and blog updates

• Getting started with RSS Feeds and News Readers
• Bloglines – Bloglines is a free online service that helps you subscribe to and manage lots of web information, such as news feeds, weblogs and audio.
• Google Reader – online RSS newsreader
• iGoogle – create a homepage with RSS headlines
• MyYahoo – create a homepage with RSS headlines

Free Blog Hosts

• Edublogs – a hosting service designed for class-based and educational blogs that uses the WordPress platform
• 10 ways to use Edublogs to teach
• Video showing creation of new Edublog
• Blogger – a popular free hosting service
• Wordpress.com – a popular free blog hosting service

Other resources on class blogs

• Blogs in Education from the University of Houston, Clear Lake
• Scholars who blog, from the Chronicle
• Writing with weblogs, from TechLearning
• Creating a Writing Course Utilizing Class and Student Blogs, from the Internet TESL Journal

Political Science Blogs

Blogs in Political Science and Political Theory – A list of Political Science blogs.

• The Moderate Voice
• The Democratic Piece
• The Reaction
• Votelaw
• Election Law
• Two Weeks Notice
• we move to canada
• Kiwiblog
• Bloggings by boz
• Informed Comment Global Affairs
• Lawyers, Guns & Money
• A Good Beer Blog
• Crooked Timber
• Political Arithmetik
• Make My Vote Count
• simon jackman’s blog
• Arms and influence
• strange maps
• Seen Through a Glass
• Jacob T. Levy
• Signifying Nothing
• Pith and Substance
• On the Fringe — Al Tzitzit
• No Right Turn
• PolySigh
• Swords and ploughshares
• Crawl Across the Ocean
• Prospects for Peace
• SevenPack Beer Blog
• La Profesora Abstraida
• Sustainability Blog
• One/Change
• Another Brilliant Idea
• Latin American Politics
• PoliBlog
• Colombia: A PoliBlog Sideblog

This list is published under the Creative Commons License by-nc-sa 3.0.

Additional resources

• Slides from TLC 2008 presentation
• Handouts from TLC 2008 presentation
• Sample syllabus with class blog
• Sample tecnical guide for student bloggers
• Sample non-technical guide for student bloggers