TechNayak

In the midst of all the humdrum of the web, somebody noticed that blogging or weblogs had turned ten. Blogging has been at the heart of user generated content and the recent 2.0 revolution. I started blogging almost a year ago and  chose a technical niche to do so. My personal blog was started way before this but I consider myself to be a serious blogger only from a year. Almost 280 posts, 150+ comments and 13,000+ spam comments later, here I stand.

Blogging empowered a generation of people to share their views with their peers. Its almost amazing the number of people who started writing after the invasion of blogs and how many are still active on this front. Some of the pioneers of blogging have been Dave Winer whose archives show  articles as early as 1997 and also John Barger:

  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.”

Wall Street Journal

DuncanRiley differs by saying Justin Hall was the first to use blogging format, Barger came up with the term blogging. Hall and Winer got started in first quarter of 1996. So we are 11 or probably 12 years into blogging. I would again like to thank all my inspirations namely Nicholas Carr, Om Malik, Mike Arrington ,Robert Scoble, Sadagopan , Rajesh Jain, Kiruba Shankar and tons more. I shall try and export my reading list and post it so you can see my sources, till then ……hurrah !! for blogging.