Quite a number of blogging books are being written today. (Talk about stating the obivous.) Debbie Weil is writing one on corporate blogging. Jeremy Wright’s new book, Blog Marketing, will soon hit the shelves. Scoble and Israel’s Naked Conversations is scheduled for release in January. Rick Bruner ought to write one as should Steve Rubel. Heck, even I’ve been approached by a publisher to write one, not that I have anything to say that hasn’t already been said.

However, if you buy only one blogging book this year, pick up a copy of Blog!, by David Kline and Dan Burstein. If ever there was a book that presented a "meta" view of blogging past, present, and future this is it.

I’ve just started reading it, and the book’s introduction is worth the price. Take, for example, this paragraph…

The results of this unusual moment in time may be nothing short of a new paradigm for modern human communication, conversation, argument, and collaborative knowlege creation. Blogging represents one important wave that is contributing to restoring the lost voice of the ordinary citizen in our culture.

Damn, that’s good!

The book is over 400 pages, so it’s going to take me a while to finish it at the snail’s pace by which I usually read. It’s not the quantity, but the quality, and I intend to savor every page.

While you’re at it, check out David Kline’s blog Blog Revolt.