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.
The term itself developed from online diaries first known as web logs, just a few years after the world wide web was created. Today, new blogs are created nearly every second, if not more, depending on which soureces you view.
The term blog is short for 'web log', meaning a regularly updated collection of links to other sites and comments, the phrase itself is disputed in terms of it's origins, according to some it was originally coined by Jorn Barger in 1997. His site 'Robot Wisdom' was one of the first blogs. Others attribute the term to Peter Merlotz in 1999. Regardless, term is now in common usage.
In 1999 new software services like Blogger and LiveJournal launched making blogs much simpler to create.
The world of text blogs expanded to include photos, audio ('podcasting') and video blogging – sometime called vlogs.
From 2007 onwards we have seen the rise of micro-blogging sites such as Twitter and Tumblr.
What is clear is that as social media has evolved, blogging is now very much seen as one part of someones online persona, where as in the past blogging was often a primary form of comunication.
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