Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Blogging Is 10 Years Old

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday July 15, 2007 @06:54AM from the or-thereabouts dept.

Several readers sent us notice of an article in the Wall Street Journal in advance of the tenth anniversary of the blog (by some definitions and accounts). The Ur-blogger in this version of history was Jorn Barger and the blog was Robot Wisdom. Barger wrote, "I decided to start my own webpage logging the best stuff." The Journal article has statements from a baker's dozen of bloggers and/or blogwatchers and a handful of videos of bloggers talking about how and why they do what they do.

1 of 108 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Re:Wow amazing coincidence by daeg · 2007-07-15 07:03 · Score: 4, Interesting

Depends on the kind of blog. A personal feelings blog, akin to most Live Journals/My Space/etc? I agree. Technical blogs, e.g., programming techniques/tips? Those are better, but aren't really blogs. They just allow someone to easily post information without organizing it into website.