Blog Origins

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2. • The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger, to describe the process of "logging the web” on December 17, 1997. • The short form, "blog," was coined by Peter Merholz (“we blog”) on May 1999. • Evan Williams at Pyra Labs used "blog" as both a noun and a verb and devised the term "blogger" .
3. ORIGIN
4. • The modern blog evolved from the online diary, where people would keep a running account of their personal lives. Most such writers called themselves diarists, journalists, or journalers. • Justin Hall, who began personal blogging in 1994 while a student at Swarthmore College, is generally recognized as one of the earlier bloggers.
5. • Jerry Pournelle and Dave Winer's Scripting News is also credited with being one of the older and longer running weblogs. • Surveillance started in 1994.
6. • Early example of a "diary" style blog consisting of text and images transmitted wirelessly in real time from a wearable computer with headup display.
7. RISE IN POPULARITY • The Misanthropic Bitch began in 1997 • Bruce Ableson launched Open Diary in October 1998, which soon grew to thousands of online diaries. • Brad Fitzpatrick started Live Journal in March 1999.
10. • Andrew Smales created Pitas.com in July 1999 as an easier alternative to maintaining a "news page" on a Web site, followed by Diaryland in September 1999, focusing more on a personal diary community. • Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan (Pyra Labs) launched blogger.com in August 1999 (purchased by Google in February 2003)
11. • Rise in importance of blogs came in 2002, when many bloggers focused on comments by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott
12. • By 2004, the role of blogs became increasingly mainstream through political consultants and news services • By 2006, the coming of twitter revolutionalized micro blogging
13. • Today blogs covers almost all platforms from personal to social to political to corporate. • It encompasses all genre in many forms and from various devices. • Its function ranges from commentary to personal and to online advertising. • And now there are more than 200 Million public blogs in existence,77 Million Tumblr,56.6 Million WordPress.