blog-researchlisted

# Blog Research ## Overview Collects evidence from individual and organizational blogs: practitioner write-ups, tutorials, opinion pieces, an organization's own technical blog. Distinguishing job: blog content ranges from tier 2 (an org's official blog, on-claim-about-that-org) to tier 5 (anonymous content-farm posts) — author identity resolution is most of the work here. **Layer rule:** produces evidence, not results. Synthesis and confidence status are the orchestrator's job. ## When to use Direct use: "what does [named expert] say about X", "find a tutorial for Y". As a component: orchestrator dispatches this for implementation/opinion sub-questions where a practitioner's direct account matters more than official docs. Don't use for: an organization's own official docs/announcements (→ official-source-research — same publisher, different tier by default), news coverage of an event (→ news-research), pages with no identifiable author or track record (→ web-research, capped at low tier there too). ## Workflow 1. **Resolve author identity first** — this decides everything downstream. Look for: a named author with a bio, a track record (cited elsewhere, known conference talks, GitHub presence), or organizational affiliation stated as the post's byline. Log what was found in `limitations` if identity is thin or absent — an unattributed post is not automatically discarded, but it caps at tier 4-5. 2. **Distinguish original from syndicated/aggregated.** Many blog platform