[LINK] Is my ignorance (or age) showing?...

Wed, 11 Sep 2002 09:55:23 +1000

Howard

"Blogging" derives from "Web logging", and a brief intro to the phenomenon
is at < http://newhome.weblogs.com/historyOfWeblogs >
According to Dave Winer,
"The first weblog was the first website, http://info.cern.ch/, the site
built by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN. From this page TBL pointed to all the new
sites as they came online."

There are many tens of thousands of blogs now, and according to one of the
early commercial sites Blogger < http://www.blogger.com > there are more
than one new Blogger blogs being created every second... like anything else
that stretches a few paradigms, blogging is seen as
a) a mere passing fad, or
b) the biggest thing since sliced bread

Many blog writers focus on specific issues eg Zeldman's A List Apart <
http://www.alistapart.com/issues/149/ > and the corporate world is starting
to take them seriously for instance  Macromedia management & staff author
several blogs, eg < http://radio.weblogs.com/0106797/ >.  "Serious"
journalists even do it!

Community blogs are developing eg < http://www.memepool.com/ > <
http://www.metafilter.com/ >  and how many/who links to blogs can be
important in this collective/cultural thang
< http://blogdex.media.mit.edu/ >

New jargon and even arts are being developed, such as Figure Blogging <
http://www.fishrush.com/links/blog.htm >

Personally I think blogging can't be ignored as a cultural phenomenon and
it's helping to keep the Web free(ish).

Regards

Jeff Evans
Online Services Manager, Business Information Services
Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development
Victoria, Australia

http://www.businessaccess.vic.gov.au
http://www.business.channel.vic.gov.au
http://www.export.vic.gov.au
http://www.ecommerce.vic.gov.au
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WT* is "blogging"?

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