Comments on: Who Cares Who First Started Blogging?

By: Kalena

Kalena — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:18:06 +0000

The fact no-one can agree is the interesting part! My money’s on Winer: http://sphinn.com/story/15348

By: Perde

Perde — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:35:04 +0000

I actually did. but you would not believe me anyway.

By: Shycon Design

Shycon Design — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 02:16:07 +0000

Before there was blogging, there was E/N (Everything/Nothing) sites. Completely pointless sites like r33t, BAMF, and such. It’s been too long to remember any of them, but that was ‘blogging’ before it was something everybody could do.

By: ExposureTim

ExposureTim — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:50:44 +0000

But it’s not silly to demand journalistic integrity or to request fact-checking by historians and journalists, especially during a time when the history is still “alive” and can help sort that out for us. Otherwise, whatever they print becomes the truth.

By: Millionaire Secrets Exposed

Millionaire Secrets Exposed — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:29:34 +0000

It’s silly to argue over such things, ok who made the first CSS template.

By: Who Started? « PR, Babies and All The Rest

Who Started? « PR, Babies and All The Rest — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:31:22 +0000

[...] Who Started? Filed under: Andy Beal, Bloggers, Blogs, Blogging — becki325 @ 3:31 pm Good thread on Andy’s log yesterday about the WSJ coverage of the 10th anniversary of blogging – who did really start blogging? [...]

By: Bushido

Bushido — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:05:42 +0000

I think it was Al Gore. Definitely. Haha

By: Andy Beal

Andy Beal — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:01:36 +0000

The problem is, it doesn’t appear that bloggers can agree on who created it either.

By: ExposureTim

ExposureTim — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:57:03 +0000

What matters, to me, is that people should feel able to correct these big media organizations when they are wrong… otherwise their printed facts will become actual truths (history) to future researchers and writers. And when a single journalist or a big media outlet like WSJ is wrong the editors/readers alike should also be alerted to the shoddy work.

I don’t care who was first, either. Blogging is just a method of publishing online and a lot of people were doing that before RSS was created (by Winer).

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:49:41 +0000

Didn’t Al Gore invent blogging? Sorry Alexandra I couldn’t resist.

I’m with you Andy. It would difficult to care any less about who was the first to blog. Other than the egos of some bloggers is there any reason the information is important.

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:18:04 +0000

As long as no one says that Al gore invented it,I’m ok.

By: SEO Refugee Blog

SEO Refugee Blog — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:41:02 +0000

Thank you! I’ve been seeing all these people debating the issue and every time my mind screamed “Who gives a flip?” I mean really isn’t blogging just an extension of keeping your journal in a word doc? And wasn’t that just an extension of keeping a pen and paper journal?

Basically I don’t much care who claims to have had the first one or who is credited, so long as blogging continues to grow.