Prompted by the WSJ article about blogs, Scoble, Scott Rosenberg, Duncan Riley, Dave Winer, CrunchNotes and Rex Hammock and others discuss the history of blogging.
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First of all, let me make this perfectly clear: Scott Rosenberg's Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters is a seriously terrific book. If you're a blogger, if you're interested in the phenomenon of blogging or even if you're just interested in where the media…
Anton notes that Dave Winer is advising John Edwards to start a program to teach North Carolinians to blog.
Er, Dave, you've been here several times at various bloggercons. And the bloggercons were here because this is one of the Big Centers of blogging in the country. Why should John Edwards…
Nature Reviews Genetics has published a terrible review of genetics blogging. And it's not just because they don't link to yours truly. The author links to Alex and Paul Zed, which means she knows about the ScienceBlogs empire network. I guess she didn't poke around long enough to find evolgen or…
Journal Nature has published a short article about science blogging. You do not need a subscription to read it - you can find it here.
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An editor at the San Jose Mercury claims that when the Merc went on line with its contents in '93, he had the daily job [because the content organzation was in constant flux] of writing a page summarizing what was new or noteworthy and linking to it...a blog, if you will. 1993. And he kept it up for years. Its major failure to conform to type or classification is that I did not note anything about comments in the write up. ["good morning silicon valley" is a useful subscription]
That's a difficult question, because blogs existed way before the NAME blog (or weblog) did. So it's going to be something that was on the web early on, updated regularly, and linking to things or posting news.
I know what the first webcam was, though: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/qsf/coffee.html