more links dee da dee

http://blog.holtz.com/
a shel of my former self - page contents mainly related to online PR, pretty interesting consider how it's a blog by itself

http://arago.cprost.sfu.ca/marcelo/
technology, self and community - "think I've honestly made a contribution to Internet studies specifically and communication studies generally by showing how we can reacquaint ourselves, as an emerging discipline of communication, with our humanist roots" - jackpot, this guy's actually doing a thesis pretty similar to our topic. ANOTHER blog by itself.

http://blog.humlab.umu.se/therese/
emerging communications - mainly about CMC, also in blog format

http://www.newmediastudies.com/intro2004.htm
web studies - website about this book written by david gauntlett - talks about the internet in the first few paras, origins, etc. not very relevant to our studies. the interesting part comes further down the page, when he talks about going back to the basics of internet (primarily a communicative tool) and the rise of blogging. "The most striking thing about these recent debates is that it's all so … 1996! Blogging is a good old-style use of the internet, and thus we see just the same debates as when the first personal homepages were put on the Web in the early to mid 1990s. Those in favour see these things as 'democratic' and a chance for everyone to 'have their say'. The critics, usually professional print journalists who do not want to be usurped by the new technology, condemn the phenomenon as a sandpit for the rambling amateur."