Yes. This week I am doing a blog on blogs. The term blog comes from "weblog." Blogs, as you should know, are websites with many entries written about anything, usually a certain subject, displayed in reverse chronological order. Embedded in these entries are usually pictures and links to other websites and blogs.
Now, it's time for a little history about blogs. One of the people credited for being a pioneer of blogging is Justin Hall. He started writing on his "online diary" in 1994! This was three years before the term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger. Justin's early blogging was happening five years before the term "blog" was coined by Peter Merholz in 1999. He began blogging at Swarthmore College.
Around 1999, blogging increased drastically in popularity. In 1998, Open Diary was created. This created thousands of online diaries which initiated the user comment section. This is used quite frequently these days in blogs (look down there V). This wonderful website I am using to write this blog, was launched in 1999 by Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan. It was then bought out by google in 2003 (probably making Evan and Meg jillionaires).
As of December 2007, Technorati was tracking more than 112 million blogs. I started this blog in 2009 so that number has had to have grown by at least one (probably many, many more). Also according to Technorati, the number one blog is written by Arianna Huffington and can be found here.
Now, for you people that believe everything you see on the internet, blogs aren't always credible sources. People can write whatever they want. They usually incorporate their opinions in what they say. So don't believe everything you hear.
Well, that is all I have to say about blogs. If you are looking for a very fun, interesting, hip, descriptive blog try looking at this one.
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