Mbeki: Beware the 'false knowledge' kindled by Twitter

Thabo Mbeki has expresses his scepticism of Twitter and blogging, calling it a tool to spread "false knowledge" to advance certain groups' agendas.

Going to the blogs

The knives are out in the food writers’ kitchen with the new media giving the established press indigestion.

Bloggers crack invites from Vatican to first blog summit

The Vatican on Monday invited 150 bloggers from around the world to a first-ever blogging summit, increasingly aware of the importance of blogging.

Why people blog about illness

Hundreds of bloggers write about their illness or trauma every day. Sue Eckstein explains why.

Everyone's invited to the birthday bash for Blogger

Forty years ago, the first two computers on the Arpanet, the military network that was the precursor to the internet, exchanged login information.

The teen bloggers who took over the internet

Some of the web's most influential voices now belong to bloggers as young as 13.

What are you doing?

Wars have always been waged on all sorts of fronts. They have also, of course, always been about words.

The bloggers who take it one post at a time

There's SlowSex (apparently; first I'd heard of it), SlowCities, and SlowFood. Now, the New York Times reports, there is also Slow Blogging.

The Fifth Column

The fifth estate is a grouping that is slowly growing both in readership and respectability.

Online catharsis

For many people with serious illnesses, blogging offers a way to cope and share their stories, writes Joanna Moorhead.

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