Category:Week 2 (9/7 - 9/11)

http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html

[http:// Rebecca Blood, "Weblogs: a History and Perspective"]

Blogs:

- 1997: Jorn Barger coined the term "weblog"...followed by Peter Merholz shortening it to "blog" in '99

- blog: "website maintained by individuals, groups, and increasingly by organizations, businesses, and corporations that are often interactive and linked to other sites (usually other blogs)"

- blogs are usually in reverse chronological order; often text but can be multimedia; can be self-identity or identified with particular genres.

History of Blogs:

before '99: needed to know HTML in order to navigate and create personal blogs. There were only a handful of blogs floating around the Internet, until Cameron Barrett published a collective list on CamWorld that listed them with their links. There were 23 known in existance before '99

1999 and later: popularization of the weblog. Individuals began creating more blogs until Cameron's list grew too long to keep every blog online.

-Pitas was created: a 'build your own weblog" tool...which soon led to the creation of similar sites like Blogger and Groksoup

- 1999: Winer made website called "edit this page" which allowed more people to use HTML

- Blogger became extremely popular...allowed for the interaction between users and easy text-box to allow people with no HTML knowledge to post their blogs.

September 2000: thousands of blogs