So, What IS the Real “History of Blogging”?…
Ha, I love it! Nothing get the blogosphere more fired up than trying to define the ‘history of blogging’.
Yesterday I referenced Saturday’s Wall Street Journal article about the 10-year blogiversary of blogging. Now the blogosphere is in high gear with all sorts of corrections, criticisms and commentary on the “facts” presented in that article. I know this has nothing to do with the main music focus of this site (“Trackin’ the SITES, Trackin’ the SOUL”), but I have lived through the entire evolution of this thing we call blogging and I find it fascinatingly interesting. Here are a few links to some of the commentary:
rexblog.com: The history of blogging founding-myths–based solely on what I can rememberoff the top of my head
duncanriley.com: Wall Street Journal Tries To Re-Write Blogging History
Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard: There Is No “First Blogger”
Declan McCullagh (CNET): Blogs Turn 10–Who’s The Father? (referenced in the Rosenberg post)
While it is far beyond me to specifically identify who the very first blogger was/is, my blogging “forefathers” are (in no particular order) Cameron Barrett (Camworld), Jorn Barger (robot wisdom) and Dave Winer (Scripting News). AAMOF, Userland’s hosted Manila application (Dave Winer founded Userland) and the follow-up, Radio Userland, were my first two weblog platforms. Later I moved on to Blogger by Pyra Labs (now owned by Google) and finally to WordPress my current platform of choice.
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