Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal noted that blogging will celebrate its 10th birthday later this year. (I found this out via GigaOM, which points out that it took a mainstream media source to inform us all of this milestone.) According to the WSJ:
We are approaching a decade since the first blogger — regarded by many to be Jorn Barger — began his business of hunting and gathering links to items that tickled his fancy, to which he appended some of his own commentary. On Dec. 23, 1997, on his site, Robot Wisdom, Mr. Barger wrote: “I decided to start my own webpage logging the best stuff I find as I surf, on a daily basis,” and the Oxford English Dictionary regards this as the primordial root of the word “weblog.”
To which blogger Jason D. O’Grady replies, “Not so fast.”
“I take issue with both of their reports,” O’Grady writes, referring to another blogger’s post that traces blogging’s origins to 1996, “because there were a number of people blogging before this and I’m one of them.”
This blog is comparatively young. Next December, around the same time Barger will celebrate 10 years of the craft, higher ed marketing will enter the terrible twos.
Andy writes! 