Here is an interesting article by blogger Chris Mooney on the genre. It covers the usual bases, the usual suspects, but takes an interesting few turns.
How blogging changed journalism - almost.
In the past year and a half or so, I myself have gone from occasionally distrusting blogging, to being enraptured by it, to participating in [...]

Ganns gets it. He understands what we Christian bloggers are striving to be all about.
SUBJECT: The MereMadness Christian Blog Award Winners
Before anything else, I would like to say that every Christian blogger is a winner in my eyes, because when a person blogs for Christ, he blogs what is truly most worth blogging!
I’ll second that [...]

This sort of thing has happened before. People have threatened suicide, or had a heart attack and others have traced them in order to get them help.
This time a 21 year old old on Internet Relay Chat was not only unable to be traced, people egged him on to kill himself.
And he did.
Brandon Vedas [...]

Russia launched an unmanned space craft today.
The vessel, which is controlled from the ground, is set to bring supplies to the three-man crew aboard the ISS - two Americans and one Russian.
Living Room looks for perspective in yesterdays shuttle breakup.
As the day has progressed I’ve looked at the many many blog entries that have been [...]

Today, as seven astronauts lose their lives in re-entry, 34 people are dead, and the death toll is rising after a horrific train crash in Zimbabwe. It is the third rail crash in that country in four months.
Update: 37 are confirmed dead, over 40 seriously injured as rescue workers continue their grim task.
A train crash [...]