This is page 82 of the blogging news archives.

Poppy Z. Brite Bans Self From Internet (May 10, 2005): Author Poppy Z.

The Huffington Post Launches (May 9, 2005): The Huffington Post blog and webzine has launched.

Star Wars Film Moves Spielberg to Tears (May 9, 2005): Now that's what we call some impressive screenwriting.

Nick Denton: Don't Believe the Blog Hype (May 8, 2005): Nick Denton, who runs the Gawker network of blogs, sounds rather negative about the impact of blogs in a recent New York Times article.

AllBusiness Gets Bloggy With Business Blogs (May 7, 2005): AllBusiness.

Warwick Univerity Encourages Students to Blog (May 7, 2005): The Guardian reports that some universities are embracing blogging and encouraging their students to blog.

Crunkie Offers Location Specific Blogging (May 6, 2005): A new mobile blogging tool has launched called Crunkie.

Neil Gaiman's Nebula Awards Speech (May 6, 2005): Bestselling author Neil Gaiman gave an excellent Toastmaster's Speech at the Nebula Awards on April 30th in Chicago, in which he talked about the importance of the Nebulas, and how SF h

Piaggio USA to Launch Blogs by Vespa Owners (May 4, 2005): Piaggio Group, the manufacturer of Vespa scooters, plans to start two blogs run by Vespa scooter owners.

Shel Holtz: Stop Defining Blogs (May 4, 2005): Blog purists insist that blogs are not media or content.

Blog Fiction Gets Media Attention (May 3, 2005): Websites are starting to emerge to cover the growing trend of blog fiction.

Will Newspapers and Magazines Ever Open Their Archives? (May 3, 2005): Dan Gillmor has called for newspapers to open up their archives.

More Blogs. Same Readers. (May 2, 2005): Blogspotting reports that new statistics are now available from the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

Teenagers Blog Away Without Parent's Knowledge (May 2, 2005): MSNBC.

Blogs Being Dropped From Google News (May 2, 2005): Blog Herald reports that their blog has been dropped as a Google News source because they publish some non-news related content.

Sticky Blobs at Les Blogs Conference (May 1, 2005): At the Les Blogs conference Doc Searls, a co-author of the Cluetrain Manifesto, made a typo and wrote "Blobs Don't Have to be Sticky" instead of "Blogs Don't Have to be Sticky" on one of the slides he used in his presentation.

Welcome to the IWJ Blog (May 1, 2005): Welcome to the new IWJ Blog! Writing and the Internet have both changed a great deal since we first began publishing on the Internet in 1997.

Dave Barry's Blog Continues to Amuse (April 30, 2005): Dave Barry's Blog is still funny and still going strong.

Do Blogs Need Comments? (April 30, 2005): Do blogs need comments? Some blogs have them and some do not.

BlogPulse.com Now Tracking 10 Million Blogs (April 29, 2005): Intelliseek's BlogPulse.