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  1. people's homepages... by quiddity · · Score: 3, Informative · on Websites of Knowledge?
    i think there must be a good selection of useful user "home" pages. would make a good thread, or posting in itself. from mine:
    --web

    currency converter - findsounds.com

    how stuff works - infoplease

    about.com - librarian's index

    rebecca's reference - tom mayo's links
    -words:

    acronym/abbr -lookup -finder -bm

    trans -babelfish -worldlingo -google bm

    bartleby

    phrontistery

    pseudodictionary

    jargon file
    --music

    epitonic - pitchfork

    sonomu - electraum

    gnod - audioquarium --books:

    amazon - abebooks - bookfinder

    gutenberg & onlinebooks

    loc.gov - lambiek comiclopedia - rebecca's books

  2. people's homepages... by quiddity · · Score: 3, Informative · on Websites of Knowledge?
    i think there must be a good selection of useful user "home" pages. would make a good thread, or posting in itself. from mine:
    --web

    currency converter - findsounds.com

    how stuff works - infoplease

    about.com - librarian's index

    rebecca's reference - tom mayo's links
    -words:

    acronym/abbr -lookup -finder -bm

    trans -babelfish -worldlingo -google bm

    bartleby

    phrontistery

    pseudodictionary

    jargon file
    --music

    epitonic - pitchfork

    sonomu - electraum

    gnod - audioquarium --books:

    amazon - abebooks - bookfinder

    gutenberg & onlinebooks

    loc.gov - lambiek comiclopedia - rebecca's books

  3. links by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Essential Blogging

    weblogs: a history and perspective Google search: "history of blogging

  4. Re:Historical and Cultural Analysis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Essential Blogging

    Rebecca Blood's Handbook covers a lot of those issues, and ignores the obvious technical crap.

  5. Re:when did the blog... by dev0n · · Score: 2, Informative · on Narrative and Weblogs: the Blognovel

    rebecca blood wrote a very good essay on the history of weblogs that you may want to check out. she's since authored two books about blogging.

  6. Re:A highly inaccurate history lesson, actually... by prophetzarquon · · Score: 1 · on Online Journals
    Um, sort of.

    I like LiveJournal enough, but I find this slick coordinated "grass roots" promotional campaign a little trying... But anyway.

    LiveJournal facilitated JOURNALS, primarily, not WEBLOGS. LiveJournals may have been among the first sites in that vein, yes. You also have Diary-X, Diaryland, Opendiary, MyDearDiary... it goes on and on. Journals were of course built by hand since way back when - Carolyn Burke in 1995, Justin Hall, other names tossed around often.

    Meanwhile. 'Weblogs' as a term existed as far back as 1997, and really, Yahoo!'s primordial days as a list of links at Stanford back in 1994 (?) may have been the first. As far as that format of web publishing, Pitas and Blogger pretty much captured the masses. Independent scripts like NewsPro already existed, of course, and since then advanced scripts like Greymatter are spreading.

    1. History of Weblogs
    2. History of Online Journals
  7. Online Journals by skatedork · · Score: 2 · on Online Journals

    A nice history lesson on weblogs.

    If you're interested in starting your own, there's a number of web apps that might help you, including Pitas and Blogger.

    I keep my web log as a way of recording what's going on with me for friends, parents, and myself. Sure, it's not particularly in-depth or personal, but looking back on it helps me place when events happened, and is a nice little digital record for me to look back on.