This website has tons of links to great resources. Both profit and non-profit websites with political blogs are readily available. The information on the website allows for a good starting place to look into the relationship between blogs and politics in American. By seperating the different types of blogs out there, it makes it much easier to scoure the internet for information about blogs and politics.

This book is a great resource. It is one of the few books in the library about the emergence of discussion boards on the internet. Davis breaks down both the emergence and the influence of these types of forums upon American democracy and the way these new ways of mass communication influence politics. It's in depth analysis of the way in which blogs played an integral role in disseminating information during the 2004 Presidental election gives deep insight to the ways this medium can help shape a public's political consciousness.

This is the best resource I have found in the library concerning teh use of blogs in American democracy. It is a short read coming in at about 150 pages and gives tons of information about bloggers and their actual participation in politics. Like most political books about stratifying an electorate, it has tons of data. Great resource.

This recent essay on the importance of blogs in politics is a very informative and compelling work. Denzer's essay has a deep focus upon the origins and the effects of blogs upon the American political structure. It also has a tremendous amount of links that lead to great resources for anyone interested in the internet and American politics. An excellent resource.

This book is a bit dated, but is an early look at how weblogs have influenced society. It is a compilation of multiple articles and speaks about a varied number of topics. Most of the topics are about culture and the influence of weblogs upon social interaction and public forums. A good resource to use for preliminary stages of looking at internet blogs.

This book is an older version of Davis' later Politics Online. Unlike his later endeavor, Web is a theory based book. It feels as if this book gives Davis' theory for how the internet should work with politics and Politics Online is his research into trying to prove his hypotheses. Still a good earlier work about the potential power of the internet in teh electoral process and delibrative democracy.

This article is less than a year old and does not have to deal with American politics. However, it is a well written critique and analysis of the influences of political blogs upon a democracy. It gives an international take upon the importance of blogs upon a democratic populace.