2. BLOGGING ORIGINS

Posted on June 21st, 2007 in Politics by Nicole

WEBLOG to BLOG
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  • Term BLOG was created from the original name “Web Log” in 1997. Naming of Web Log was credited to Jorn Barger.
  • In early 1999 Peter Merholz www.peterme.com/ coins the term blog after announcing he was going to pronouce web blogs as “wee-blog”. This was then shortened to blog.
  • In May 2007 Technorati, a blog search engine, was tracking more than 71 Million Blogs currently operating.