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History of Blogging

History of Blogging

A lecture given in PUB101: Publication of Self in Everyday Life @ Simon Fraser University

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Juan Pablo Alperin

September 16, 2014
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  1. THE EVOLUTION OF BLOGGING
    PUB101 — POSIEL — SEPTEMBER 16

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  2. TIMELINE
    1979 – Invention of USENET
    1983 – mod.ber (USENET group w/ summaries) (Brian
    Redman)
    1984 – creation of listserv
    1992 – 1st Web Page (Tim Berners-Lee)
    1994 – 1st online diary and 1st personal homepage (Claudio
    Pinhanez & Justin Hall)
    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17421022

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  3. TIMELINE cont’d
    1994 – travel-library.com is launched, bringing collection of
    USENET posts to the Web
    1997 – term Weblog was coined by Jorn Barger
    1997 – SlashDot launches
    1998 – Open Diary launched – Would later be followed by
    LiveJournal (1999), DiaryLand (1999), Pitas (1999), Blogger
    (1999), Xanga (2000), Movable Type (2001) and Wordpress
    (2003).
    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17421022

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  4. TIMELINE cont’d
    1999 – Invention of RSS
    2001 – Big name bloggers begin to emerge
    2001 – Gizmodo, BoingBoing
    2001-2004 – rise of political blogs
    2003 – Pyra Labs sells “Blogger” to Google
    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17421022
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_blogging

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  5. HTTP://WWW.C-SPAN.ORG/VIDEO/?185831-1/INTERNET-JOURNALISM-NEWS

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  6. BLOG-O-SPHERE
    http://xkcd.com/181/

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  7. The practices of the left blogosphere are more consistent
    with an interpretation of a participatory public sphere and
    a steady expansion of prosumption practices. The practices
    of the right blogosphere are, however, more consistent with
    the claims that the networked public sphere is no less
    elitist than the mass-mediated public sphere.


    Shaw, Aaron & Benkler, Yochai. 2012. A Tale of Two Blogospheres: Discursive Practices on the Left and Right. American Behavioral Scientist. 56(4) 459–487. DOI: 10.1177/0002764211433793.

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  8. Strategies

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  9. TIMELINE cont’d
    2004 – “blog” declared “word of the year” in M-W dictionary
    2004 – first videoblog (vlogs!) – a year before YouTube
    2006 – launch of Twitter
    2007 – launch of Tumblr
    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17421022
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_blogging

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  10. THREE (OF MANY) CHANGES

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  11. 1. FORMATS

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  12. HTTPS://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=9KKMNOTTHJK#T=1797
    Anil Dash: The Web We Lost (minute 31:30)
    content tied to devices dies when those devices become obsolete

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  13. 2. STREAMS

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  14. HTTPS://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=9KKMNOTTHJK#T=2461
    Anil Dash: The Web We Lost (minute 41:00)
    we built the Web for pages

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  15. You couldn’t tweet out links to your blog to thousands of followers or like your own post on
    Facebook in hopes that others would, too.
    In those days, if I wanted people other than my immediate sphere of influence to read my
    blog, my best bet was to get another blogger to link to my post.
    And that meant becoming friends with that person. Which required time and work.
    There were some important lessons to learn in those early days of blogging:
    1. Blogging was about relationship — period.
    2. If you had a blog, you were rare and different, already remarkable.
    3. The goal wasn’t to “go viral.” It was to be consistent.
    4. A slow growth to success was the only way.
    5. People were less concerned with being polished and more concerned with being real.
    Transparency was a must.
    http://goinswriter.com/early-blogging/

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  16. HTTPS://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=9KKMNOTTHJK#T=1308
    Anil Dash: The Web We Lost (minute 21:50)
    Links were corrupted: Likes are next

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  17. IT CHANGES STORYTELLING

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  18. I wonder what would have become of me if I had come of
    age as a writer during these years of living out loud. My
    parents were in a car crash in 1986 that killed my father
    and badly injured my mother. If social media had been
    available to me at the time, would I have posted the news
    on Facebook? Tweeted it to my followers as I stood on line
    to board the flight home? Instead of sitting numbly on the
    plane, with the help of several little bottles of vodka, would
    I have purchased a few hours of air time with Boingo Wi-Fi
    and monitored the response—the outpouring of kindness,
    a deluge of “likes,” mostly from strangers? And ten years
    later, would I have been compelled to write a memoir
    about that time in my life? Or would I have felt that I’d
    already told the story by posting it as my status update?


    Shapiro, Dani. 2014, August 18. A Memoir is Not a Status Update. New Yorker. Available at http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/memoir-status-update

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  19. I worry that we’re confusing the small, sorry details—the
    ones that we post and read every day—for the work of
    memoir itself.
    “ ”
    Shapiro, Dani. 2014, August 18. A Memoir is Not a Status Update. New Yorker. Available at http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/memoir-status-update

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  20. working on my novel

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  21. 3. SPLINTERING IDENTITY

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  22. WHERE IS IDENTITY?
    it used to be our homepage

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