Bloggin about Blogs

When I get old and retired, I will become a published human being and maybe I will document the history of blogs. I found so many different first blog dates that I don't want to say that any of them are actually true. But in an article in the July 30, 2007 Information Week, they cite a Wall Street Journal article about the 10th anniversary of the first Weblog. Which would put the first blog around 1997. Wikipedia agreed with this: "The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger on 17 December 1997. The short form, "blog," was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May of 1999. This was quickly adopted as both a noun and verb ("to blog," meaning "to edit one's weblog or to post to one's weblog")."

But then blogging turned into a lot to do about journaling and social networking and the lines separating them are so fuzzy now. It is even getting more acceptable for news organizations to have blogs, some personal that have nothing to do about news, but other are more geared toward the news.

I think that this blog has been a good exercise for us and that it will be preparing us for the future. I speculate that there are a lot of companies out there that want to get into the blogging/commenting/two-way connection over the internet, and you may be able to help them. Taking a medium that was once unidirectional and making it multi-directional may be one of the most valuable things about the internet.

I also have to comment about light and shadows since I spent a good half hour thinking about it yesterday. Like why can't you have a colored shadow? And why can't you fill the shadow with a colored light and have the spray of the light mix with other light coming from the front become a different color? Interesting...