While beginning to type another blog about what exciting new anecdotes I have learning about study skills in the past month, the thought struck me that I know very little about the activity I am doing right now, blogging. So in leui of continuing to divulge my study skills secret I decided to teach you (and myself) some information about blogs. I hear about blogs almost everyday, and I read a recipe blog almost everyday. However, when I google searched "history of blogs" and was taken the Wikipedia paged titled "History of blogging timeline" I might as well have been reading a Portugese newspaper (and my Portugese skills are...well...non existent). Blogging has become such a part of our everyday life, that it is almost assumed that everyone knows what a blog is and how to work them. Well I have had a small amount of practice with GUTS blog (and by a small amount of practice I mean approximately 4 entries), but I am by no means comfortable with my blogging skills. So for any other uneasy blog writers/readers here is a short crash course in the history and the present of blogging.
1. Justin Hall, is considered to be one of the first bloggers. He blogged about happenings in his personal life while a student at Swarthmore College. He began in 1994.
2. The word blog is short for "weblog" which was coined by Jorn Barger in 1997.
3. Technorati is a search engine dedicated to BLOGS. They have an index of over 112.8 million blogs.
3. Technorati shows that the most popular blog today is the Huffington Post (www.huffingtonpost.com). They update their top ten list daily.
4. You can read the "State of the Blogosphere" on Technorati.
5. There are many types of blogs: personal, business, entertainment, news, politics, diaries......
Well I'm a little blogged out, but I'll share more at a later date. Until next time...keep blogging!
Abby
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