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Blogs: A Brief History

Blogs: A Brief History . Where did THAT word come from?. The word BLOG was to believed to be coined by computer programmer Jorn Barger sometime around 1997. It is derived from the word “WEBLOG”. WHEN???.

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Blogs: A Brief History

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  1. Blogs: A Brief History

  2. Where did THAT word come from? • The word BLOG was to believed to be coined by computer programmer Jorn Barger sometime around 1997. It is derived from the word “WEBLOG”.

  3. WHEN??? • Although in existence since the early 1990’s, Blog popularity started to take off during the “dot-com” craze of 1998-1999. • It is a personalized version of an online forum or newsgroup.

  4. Some examples of Blogs: • Drudge Report • Slashdot.org • Digg • Blogger.com (now owned by Google) • Wordpress • Metafilter • Neatorama

  5. Drudge Report • Started as a private email list in 1994 • Fashioned after early gossip columnists and muckrakers.

  6. Slashdot.org • Started in 1998 • Dedicated mostly to tech news. • Content approved my moderators. • Newer “community blog”

  7. DIGG • Established in 2004 • Tech based • Stole much of Slashdot’s readership when launched. • Users vote to put a story on the blog’s front page instead of moderator.

  8. BLOGGER.COM • Started in 1999 • One of earliest blogs.

  9. WORDPRESS • Established in 2005. • The site was initially launched as an invitation-only service. • Accounts can now be registered by anyone. • Currently over 1,115,004 accounts with the service.

  10. METAFILTER • Established in 2000 • A Community weblog. • Very popular in the technical arena.

  11. Other blogs • TMZ.com: Celebrity gossip • Perezhilton.com: Celebrity gossip • Huffington Post: Political blog • Daily Kos: Political blog • Gawker.com: hired writers. Based on N.Y. City gossip. • Wonkette.com: Dedicated to Washington D.C. gossip.

  12. HOW TO ACCESS • Most just require an email address and a waiting period before you can post. • Some require more information to become a registered user.

  13. Summing it up: • Blogs have become so popular that newspapers and other news services have added user comment sections to their websites. • There are new sites appearing almost every day. • Anybody can use them, there is a wealth of information and sometimes misinformation, so remember to take the info with a grain of salt.

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