Blogging Is 10 Years Old

According to The Wall Street Journal it's been 10 years since the first blog was born.

"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.'", states the journal. 

The online journal celebrates the "blogiversary" by publishing a very informative article about it, written by Tunku Varadarajan.

In the article the journalist makes a short retrospection of the blog history and analyzes blogs contributions to society.

"In the decade since their conception, blogs, once a smorgasbord of links, have evolved into vehicles for a fuller, more forceful and opinionated prose. Not all of it has been lovely to behold, or even edifying. Inevitably, there has been bombast, verbosity and exposure to the public eye of thoughts that, ideally, should have remained locked inside fevered heads", says the author.

He fills the content interviewing twelve commentators - including Tom Wolfe, Newt Gingrich, the SEC's Christopher Cox and actress-turned-blogger Mia Farrow - on what blogs mean to them. The article is supplied with a handful statements and videos.