History of Blogging
The origin of the blogs come back since the writing in personal diaries, etc. Nowadays, a blog is a Webpage which informs us of personal journals written by a company or simply by one of us. Blogs were always written in chronical order but today the order is the opposite, just like a forum.
The word blog comes from the word Weblog. Blogs are updated daily or more frequently than other websites. Blogs usually describe and make the reader understand the author's point of view about something or their opinion. If the blog belongs to a company, it will show off their goals, ideology and opinions, as well. The blog can be defined as an online diary in which its writer records everyday's news or opinions.
Other known ways of bussiness blogs use the finger protocol. It was a popular system for online blogs in the mids 1990s, and it became popular by 3D game makers who used it to produce interesting news and details about games, etc... for their fans.
The Origin of the Word BLOG
The Blog Herald is the origin of the word weblog which were "invented" by two students from Bond University in the Gold Coast, named G. raikundalia & M. Rees. this word was first used ia a paper's title as "Exploiting the World-Wide Web for Electronic Meeting Document Analysis and Management". This word was made popular by Jorn Barger, of the Weblog Robot Wisdorn in late 1997. He defined the word weblog as logging into the web. In 1999, Peter Merholz reduced the word into blog.
The BLOG Throughout History
On January 1994, Justin Hall (student from Swarthmore College) created the first blog (Links.net). Instead, some investigators say the first blog was created by David Wilner in 1997 (Scripting News).
On December 1997, Jorn Barger gave the name of weblog.
On October 1998, the Open Diary is founded.
About 6 months later, on April 1999, Peter Merholz reduced the name weblog into blog, as I mentioned before.
On July of the same year, the first free weblog tool is founded (Pitas).
On August 1999, Pyra brakes out Blogger.
A few years later, on February 2002, Heather Armstrong looses her job because of posting something about it in her blog.
On August 2002, Gizmodo is founded.
On February 2003, Google buys Blogger to Pyra with 1 million Blogger users, and 200,000 active users.
3 months later, on June, Google founds AdSense and adds ads to the blogs.
Afterwards, on July 2003, MySpace is founded.
After a month, TypePad, a bloggin service is founded.
On December 2004, MSN Spaces are founded; which joins MSN Messenger and Hotmail with blogging services.
On March 2005, AOL founds its RED Blog Service, for teenage use.
On August 2005, TypePad founds TypePad for mobile services.
On October 2005, AOL buys Weblogs Inc., a web publisher for $25 million.
Next month, DigitalBrit founds its Business Blog.
On June 2006, eBay founds their own user blogs at eBay Live! conference.
On August 2006, Google pays $900 million from shared incomes to be the exclusive provider of search for MySpace.com.
Blog Terminology
Like many recent tecnologies, the blogosphere (world of blogs) has many new terms, which describe many characteristics of blogs and the act of logging into a blog. These are some words used in blogsphere.
blog: Short for Web log, a blog is a Web page that serves as a publicly accessible personal journal for an individual. Typically updated daily, blogs often reflect the personality of the author.
blogger: A person who blogs.
blogging: The act of writing or updating your blog.
blogosphere: Meaning all blogs, it is an expression used to describe the 'world of blogs'.
blogroll: Found on blogs it is a list of links to other blogs and Web sites that the blog author commonly references or is affiliated with. Blogrolls help blog authors to establish and build upon a their blogger community.
blogsnob: (1) A slang term used to describe a blogger who doesn't respond to blog comments left by people outside his or her own circle of blogger friends.
(2) Written as BlogSnob, a free advertising exchange for blogs and personal sites.
b-blog: Short for business blog, a blog used by a business to promote itself.
klog: Short for knowledge blog, klog is a type of blog usually used as an internal / Intranet blog that is not accessible to the general public and that serves as a knowledge management system. The term klog is also being used to describe a blog that is technical content oriented.
moblog: Acronym used to combine the terms "mobile" and "Web log". Where a Web log (also called a blog) is a Web page that serves as a publicly accessible personal journal for an individual, a moblog is a blog which has been posted to the Internet from a mobile device such as a mobile phone or PDA.
tagging: Commonly used in blogs, site authors attach keyword descriptions (called tags) to identify images or text within their site as a categories or topic. Web pages and blogs with identical tags can then be linked together allowing users to search for similar or related content. If the tags are made public, online pages that act as a Web-based bookmark service are able to index them. tags can be created using words, acronyms or numbers. Tags are also called tagging, blog tagging, folksonomies (short for folks and taxonomy), or social bookmarking.
Blog and Ping: An online marketing term applied to a system that utilizes blogs and pings (short for pingback) to deliver content and /or sites for indexing in search engines with the ultimate aim of profit. Also called blog ping.
vlog: Short for video blog, it is the term used to describe a blog that includes or consists of video clips. Typically updated daily (or with regular frequency) vlogs often reflect the personality or cause of the author. Also called vog.
Blogging Services
Before bloggers existed, people had to find some webs to post their blogs. In late 1990s, logging into blogs became popular, so bloggers became available for every user who wished to post their blogs. These services permit blog authors to edit their blogs and to mantain them as well. Nowadays, blog services have become a daily activity; very popular and used.
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