The term ""blog"" wasn't coined until 1999 and yet by 2004, it became Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year. Globally, the number of blogs is more than doubling quarterly. Here to offer a unique overview of the emerging phenomenon that even armchair observers will find curiosity-satisfying is Dispatches from Blogistan: A Travel Guide for the Modern Blogger.

Filled with practical, easy-to-implement advice for making blogging more enjoyable, useful, and profitable, this book covers everything from blogging and how it fits into the history of journalism to practical tips for planning and managing a blog, attracting and retaining an active readership, and even generating revenue. Written by noted technology journalist and interactive media veteran Suzanne Stefanac, the book's fresh and succinct design, quotes and commentary from noted and celebrity bloggers (authors Bruce Sterling, Steven Johnson and Cory Doctorow, Craig Newmark of craigslist.org, NPR news commentator Farai Chideya, blog pioneer Justin Hall among others), accompanying blog site, and more, make this a blog book like no other!

Suzanne Stefanac has written about technology and its social and business implications for more than fifteen years; her work has been published in Wired, Macworld, Salon, PC World, Publish, New Media, San Francisco Chronicle, California Lawyer, and Rolling Stone, among others. She was founding editor for Macworld Online, executive producer for The Site, an hour-long nightly MSNBC technology program, and co-founded RespondTV, an interactive television infrastructure company. More recently, she has provided strategic consulting and Web development for General Wesley Clark's PAC, Quincy Jones' We Are the Future project, Macarthur Fellow and American Book awardee Guillermo G?mez-Peħa. She has served as a mentor with the American Film Institute's Digital Content Labs for the past seven y...