Is Blogging Dead: How Blogging Has Evolved Over Time

HOW BLOGGINGHAS EVOLVED

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1983–1993Usenet featured amoderated newsgroupallowing individuals topost in the group.


1994First online *diarists started postingtheir online diaries.Claudio Pinhanez's Open Diary was thefist web page in an online diary formatpublished at the MIT Media Labwebsite from November 14, 1994 until1996.


*diarists = journalists = journalers = escribitionists

1994Justin Hall began eleven yearsof personal online diary-writing.


dubbed by New York Times Magazine asthe "founding father of personal bloggers"

1994sousveillance: semi-automated bloggingwith live videotogether with text alsostarted to be used inwebsites.


sousveillance

1996The book, 24 Hours inCyberspace was published. Thiscaptured personal profiles ofthe people involved in early webpages. Eventually, onlinediaries caught the attention ofthe media.


1997

This term was coined by Jorn Barger, creator of thewebsite Robot Wisdom which contained a "log" of hisinternet activity.


"WEBLOG"

1998More and more resources werecreated especially for bloggers.OPEN DIARY: a platform with anopen community approach toblogging using a membership modelthat allowed people to leavecomments on other peoples' workswas launched in October 1998.


1999

Weblog was shortened to "blog" by thenprogrammer Peter Merholz. Blogger, LiveJournal, and Xanga were launched.


"BLOG"blogs started becoming popular this year with

the creation of these blog hosting tools.

2000

Earliest video blogs were recorded


2001

Several political blogs emerged this year.


2002


Blogs played a role in breaking, shaping, andspinning news stories.

2002


This year marked the dawn of Mommy Bloggers

2002



Technorati was launched. This was one of thefirst blog search engines

2002



Technorati was launched. This was one of thefirst blog search engines

Gawker was launched. According to NYT, thisinitiated the creation of gossip blogs.

2003


Blog Ads was launched by Pressflex LLC. A fewmonths later, Google debuted Adsense.

2003



Blogging was becoming a business

2003



Blogging was becoming a businessPyraLabs (the creators ofBlogger) was acquired by Google

2003



Blogging was becoming a businessPyraLabs (the creators ofBlogger) was acquired by Google

WORDPRESSand TYPEPADwere launched

2004


declared as the "Year of the Video Blog" by one ofthe earliest video bloggers, Steve GarfieldPolitical blogs were becoming more prominent.

2004


declared as the "Year of the Video Blog" by one ofthe earliest video bloggers, Steve GarfieldPolitical blogs were becoming more prominent.

2005 YouTube was launched.Studies showed 32MAmericans read blogs

2006


Microblogging was born with Twitter co-founderand CEO Jack Dorsey's first tweet

2007


Tumblr was launched for those “who feel they maynot have enough content or time to write a fullblog, yet still want to write and share links andmedia.” - Josh Lowensohn, CNET

2008 Posterous was launched.

2010


11% of bloggers were earning primarilyfrom their blogs (Source: Technorati).By the end of this year, theblogosphere grew to 152M

ACTIVE BLOGS

2012


MEDIUM was launched.LinkedIn recruited popular businessfigures to guest blog on theirpublishing platform.

2013


Blogs are ranked among the top five“most trustworthy” sources of brandinformation

2016


Automattic, the creators of Wordpress,rolled out the .blog domain


FUTURE ?

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