Blog: n. abbreviation of weblog. v. Add new material to or regularly update a weblog.
(Oxford English Dictionary: 2005)
Ten years ago, this entry didn’t appear in dictionaries. The first blog is attributed to Claudio Pinhanez in 1994; since then blogging, blogs and the blogosphere have crept their way into global language. Wikipedia explain their development here.
According to Technorati (considered the closest there is to an authority on blog related statistics) there are an estimated 75.2 million blogs – today (19/04/07). With 175,000 new blogs created daily, this figure will be different tomorrow. Globally there are 18 updates a second resulting in over 1.6 million posts per day. People are blogging.
Loathe or love them; blogs reflect a new media growth industry that is hard to ignore. Blogging has redefined online activity. The familiar ‘www.’ is being changed by the emergence of a World Live Web; an ever changing and updated array of user generated web activity; increasingly referred to as ‘citizen media’. The Internet now reflects a combination of ‘static’ content (websites) alongside content with such frequent input and updates that nothing stays still for long.
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Good analysis, and ooh, where did you find that reference to Claudio Pinhanez? I've not heard of him, and your link doesn't seem to go anywhere.
With the arrival of 'microblogging' sites like Twitter, even blogs that are updated every few days are starting to look static by comparison. Perhaps soon we'll have blogging sites that log and publish our every thought as we're thinking it...
Thank you, very much I really do value your opinion. Yes you are right , Twitter takes it somewhere new; I found it too strange, blogging seems calm by comparison. As to the future, perhaps 'blue pill?' or 'red pill?' world is on its way...
Claudio Pinhanez is mentioned here http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/onlinediary.
He was a researcher at MIT, the link is now fixed and takes you there...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_diary
Sorry, forgot the _ . Ignore first link try this one.
Ah, thanks for that - yes, I suppose Claudio there had a blog before the word 'blog' existed.
NB did you see that Technorati has revised its view of the number of blogs worldwide, and now admits there are only 15 million 'active blogs' in the world - and that this number is no longer growing?
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