An Excellent Outlet for Posting and Following Events

http://crowdvoice.org/

Blogs on Regime Change

Bahrain

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/middle-east/Facebook-Becomes-Divisive-in-Bahrain-127958073.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/02/16/501364/main20032432.shtml

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/bahrain

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread718193/pg1

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/bahrain/8681885/Bahrain-and-the-Arab-Spring-time-for-some-realism.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/25/twitter-facebook-uprisings-arab-libya

http://www.motherboard.tv/2011/2/17/google-earth-and-the-bahraini-uprising

Egypt

http://www.facebook.com/elshaheeed.co.uk?v=wall

http://blogs.cfr.org/campbell/2011/02/14/egypts-uprising-and-nigeria/

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/01/egypts_uprising

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/25/my-take-egypts-uprising-echoed-martin-luther-kings-activism/

http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/05/reporters-notebook-witnessing-egypts-uprising/

http://blogs.aljazeera.net/asia/2011/02/04/what-does-egypts-uprising-mean-afghanistan-and-pakistan

http://www.thenation.com/blog/158159/whos-behind-egypts-revolt

http://mazinx.wordpress.com/2011/01/29/egypts-uprising-and-its-implications-for-palestine/

http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2011/02/10/organizing-the-egyptian-uprising/

http://www.irannewsnow.com/2011/01/live-blog-the-egyptian-revolt-day-6-beginning-of-the-end/

Iran

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/13/iran-demonstrations-viole_n_215189.html

http://neareastpolicy.com/irans-uprising-prospects-after-february-11-escalation-or-decline/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2009/jun/17/iran-uprising

http://iranrevolt.wordpress.com/

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/media_law_prof_blog/2011/05/anonymity-on-the-net-and-the-iranian-uprising.html

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/06/13/winds-of-change-the-uprising-in-iran/

http://www.iris.org.il/blog/archives/3080-Iran-Uprising-About-Rigged-Elections-or-Full-Scale-Revolution.html

http://ronbosoldier.blogspot.com/2009/06/second-iranian-revolution.html

http://atimetobetray.com/blog/iran-uprising-%E2%80%93-feb-20-2011/

http://blog.heritage.org/2011/02/18/irans-green-movement-revives-energized-by-egyptian-revolt/

Myanmar

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/08/suu-kyi-attends-anniversary-of-myanmar-uprising-that-made-her-an-icon/

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003915478_myanmar01.html

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/myanmar/index.html

http://www.allvoices.com/Myanmar/political-news

http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=3665153&page=1

https://www.library.ohiou.edu/sea/blog/?p=1664

http://invisiblecollege.weblog.leidenuniv.nl/2007/10/28/the-political-economy-of-myanmar-burma-p

http://en.wordpress.com/tag/myanmar-politics/

http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2009/05/politics-and-crispy-pancakes-in-myanmar/

Syria

http://www.economist.com/blogs/newsbook/2011/08/syrias-uprising

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/09/the_good_revolt_in_syria_or_just_more_revolting_jihadists.html

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/14/syrian-tv-station-accuses-al-jazeera-of-fabricating-uprising/

http://www.vosizneias.com/78969/2011/03/18/beirut-uprising-in-syria-syrian-tv-says-security-forces-protesters-clash/

http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=253828

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/pjm-exclusive-video-from-syrias-great-friday-uprising-content-warning/

http://blogs.ft.com/the-world/2011/07/icg-offers-rare-insight-into-syrian-uprising/#axzz1YgW35aI1

http://blog.harald-oberhem.net/2011/08/03/syria%E2%80%99s-uprising-violence-will-not-stop-a-people-seeking-freedom-and-dignity/

http://syriacomment.com/

Tunisia

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/22/video-that-triggered-tunisias-uprising/

http://www.talkmorocco.net/forums/january-2011-the-tunisian-uprising/

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/blog-post/2011/01/tunisia_and_the_social_media-s.html

http://www.monaeltahawy.com/blog/?p=369

http://religionresearch.org/martijn/2011/01/23/closing-the-week-3-featuring-the-tunisia-uprising-ii/

http://blog.octavianasr.com/2010/12/tunisia-uprising-vs-iran-election.html

http://sillybahrainigirl.blogspot.com/2011/01/covering-tunisian-uprising.html

http://weaselzippers.us/2011/05/20/yesterday-obama-hails-tunisian-uprising-today-tunisian-muslim-brotherhood-leader-says-arab-spring-will-lead-to-elimination-of-israel/

http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=4297

http://social-fluency.com/?p=663

Yemen

http://dock-of-bay.blogspot.com/2011/05/youtube-twitter-facebook-on-frontline.html

http://blogs.aljazeera.net/liveblog/Yemen

http://shaza171.wordpress.com/?s=yemen

http://www.thenation.com/blog/159397/jeremy-scahill-why-has-us-been-silent-yemens-uprising

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/the-casbah/journalists-risk-their-lives-reporting-yemen

http://www.pakwatan.com/blog/tag/yemen-uprising/

http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/middle-east/in-pictures-yemen-uprisings-deadliest-day

http://pomed.org/blog/2011/07/analyzing-the-yemen-revolution-and-violence-erupts.html/

http://www.economist.com/blogs/multimedia/2011/04/ginny_hill_yemens_uprising

http://crowdvoice.org/popular-uprising-in-yemen

Other (blog resource)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2011/mar/22/middle-east-protest-interactive-timeline

Blogs on Social Networking and Public Policy

SN outreach by governments

http://gcn.com/articles/2011/03/22/va-defends-against-accusations-of-doing-a-crappy-job-on-social-media-outreach-to-vets.aspx  

http://smexchange.ogilvypr.com/2011/08/minorities-favor-government-using-social-media/

http://www.govloop.com/profiles/blogs/want-to-sweeten-your-citizen-outreach-head-to-the-fair

http://www.usa.gov/webcontent/technology/social_networks.shtml

http://www.fiercegovernmentit.com/story/report-traditional-outreach-still-preferred-social-media-hill/2011-07-28

http://opengovernmentdirections.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/8_Principles_of_Public_Outreach.pdf     (2010)

http://www.tgdaily.com/business-and-law-features/55578-state-department-focuses-on-social-media-outreach

http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2008/10/studies-social-networks-exploding-could-outmode-government.ars

http://www.hci.org/files/field_content_file/SNGovt_SummaryFINAL.pdf    (2010)

http://ohmygov.com/blogs/general_news/archive/2010/01/27/The-top-6-government-social-networks.aspx

http://ourborder.ning.com/

http://govcentral.monster.com/community

http://connect.state.gov/

http://www.military.com/

SN and commerce

http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2011/02/features/social-networks-drive-commerce?page=all

http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/48989.html?wlc=1316645868

http://socialmediatoday.com/achintya-gupta/348719/how-are-social-networks-powering-mobile-commerce

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6268.html  (Harvard Business School)

http://www.jeffbullas.com/2010/04/05/12-key-findings-on-social-media%E2%80%99s-impact-on-business-and-decision-making-by-ceos-and-managers/

http://www.orgnet.com/

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/video?id=2782622    (2007)

http://www.web20blog.org/2009/03/24/exploring-the-economic-impact-of-social-media/

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703518704576259252907505330.html

http://www.focus.com/fyi/50-social-sites-every-business-needs-presence/

SN and productivity

http://www.sociosite.net/

http://www2.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/netgroup.htm

http://www.stayonsearch.com/21-key-benefits-of-blogging

http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/benefits-of-blogging-a-practitioners-perspective/

http://www.statepress.com/2010/03/24/the-benefits-of-blogging/

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/amy/2010/01/26/the-benefits-of-blogging-explained/

http://www.labspaces.net/blog/1277/The_Benefits_of_Blogging___

http://many.corante.com/archives/2004/02/09/the_political_effects_of_blogging_call_for_indicators.php

http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/04/27/can-blogs-affect-politics-and-society/

http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2006/04/27/proving-that-blogs-affect-society/

Downsides of SN

http://www.shoutmeloud.com/how-much-has-social-media-changed-society.html

http://www.helium.com/knowledge/120389-the-negative-side-of-blogging

http://hyperactiveinefficiency.wordpress.com/tag/blogging/

http://socialdegree.com/2007/01/22/an-inefficiency-of-professional-social-networking/

http://socialnetworking.procon.org/view.answers.php?questionID=001614

http://www.oprah.com/relationships/Negative-Impact-of-Social-Networking-Websites-at-Work

http://baruchnewmedia.com/wiki/Social_Networking:_Benefits_and_disadvantages_for_our_society

http://socialnetworking.lovetoknow.com/Negative_Impact_of_Social_Networking_Sites

http://networkconference.netstudies.org/2011/04/social-networking-sites-more-harm-than-good/

http://www.wizardjournal.com/social-networking/five-most-deadly-side-effects-of-facebook.html

Academic studies on SN

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/student-papers/fall07-papers/social-networks.pdf (2007)

http://ftp.jrc.es/EURdoc/JRC48650.pdf   (2008)

http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu/publications/pub.cfm?id=1884   (2008)

http://www.linkscenter.org/publications.htm

http://www.linkscenter.org/papers/brassoxford.pdf    (2011)

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/323/5916/892.full?ijkey=UI5HJUxfOqIKc&keytype=ref&siteid=sci      (2009)

http://www.steveborgatti.com/papers/2modeconcepts.pdf     (2009)

http://www.linkscenter.org/papers/job.pdf           (2008)

http://faculty.ucr.edu/~hanneman/nettext/

http://www.cmu.edu/joss/content/articles/volume12/Lusher/     (2011)

http://www.cmu.edu/joss/

http://stat.gamma.rug.nl/socnet.htm

http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~bowlin/pdf/overstock-wosn08.pdf    (undated)

Blogs on Blog Culture

Foreign Policy

http://foreignpolicyblogs.com/

Arts Beat

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/

SF Gate

http://blog.sfgate.com/culture/

The Telegraph

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/

The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog

The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog

Bits Blogs

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/

IBM

http://www.ibm.com/blogs/zz/en/index.html

Political Ticker

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

Informed Comment

http://icga.blogspot.com/

Child Psychology

http://www.child-psych.org/

http://dukeresearch.blogspot.com/

http://ourborder.ning.com/profiles/blog/list

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

Academic studies about blogs

http://www.jdhr.org/publications/media-and-development/Blogs.pdf    (1995) 

http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1464/blogs-sex-study-exclusive-dating-website   (2010)

http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1532/blogs-internet-access-rights                          (2010)

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2011/07/studies-show-search-ads-drive-89.html   (2011)

http://blog-bib-studies.blogspot.com/

http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2005/The-State-of-Blogging.aspx                         (2005)

http://orange.eserver.org/issues/5-2/danielson.html   (2006)                                    

http://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/the-impact-of-economic-blogs-part-i-dissemination-aka-check-out-these-cool-graphs            (Part 1, 2011)

http://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/the-impact-of-blogs-part-ii-blogging-enhances-the-blogger-s-reputation-but-does-it-influence-policy         (Part 2, 2011)