Entertaining update from David Kline on the latest publishing deals inked by blogger-authors. Two that caught my eye (David's comments in quotations):

- "Former Wonkette blogger Ana Marie Cox's first nonfiction book, on the next generation of political activists, again to Riverhead, reportedly for "mid-six-figures" (Washington Post)"

[Her "juicy" political novel Dog Days, just published, is reviewed here.]

- "Seth Godin's SMALL IS THE NEW BIG: And Other (Little) Ideas that Change Everything, a small collection of big articles - from blog posts, ebooks, and magazine articles, to Portfolio [note: this is my publisher], for an advance somewhere between $100,000-$250,000"

When I can turn entries from BlogWriteForCEOs into a 6-figure - plus…

Below is an update of my original 101 list. If you've got a great resource page or article - of specific interest to marketers - leave me a comment below and I might add it. No promises. 

Blogging 101

Blogging 101 by Rebecca Blood (on MSN Spaces)

Blogging 101 by Kari Chisholm

Blogs 101 by Rich Meislin in New York Times' Technology section

Blogging 101 by Technorati

Blog knowledge center by Cymfony

Business Blogging 101 on the NEWPRWiki

Business Blogging Resources by Dave Taylor

Global Voices' Intro to Blogs

Weblog Basics on About.com

Wikibooks' Blogging 101

Wikipedia definition…

Just saw this. Google has launched a Google China Blog. Yes, it's in Chinese so I can't read it. But clearly it's an attempt to answer critics of the company's decision to cooperate with the Chinese government in censoring search results. Here's the story in ChinaTechNews. And a less charitable spin on it here at P2Pnet.

Included are a few links in English in the right-hand column including John Battelle's Searchblog. Kinda cool. That's what you might call "getting exposure." What's the population of China? I forget... [see below] but probably growing exponentially along…