10 años de Blogs

Salio ayer un buen articulo en el WSJ sobre el decimo aniversario del primer blog. Parece que el pionero fue Jorn Barger, que en 1997 creo el blog 'Robot Wisdom'. El acuño la palabra weblog (blog), con esta definicion: ' I decided to start my own webpage logging the best stuff I find as I surf, on a daily basis'.

Algunos de los sitios mencionados en el articulo son:
Blogger.com: The top blogging site by volume, the Blogger-hosted URL (name.blogspot.com) is widely recognizable.

Then
Debut: August 1999
Founder: Pyra Labs
Now
Purchased by Google: 2003
Worldwide monthly unique visitors in May 2007: 125 million

BoingBoing.net: "A Directory of Wonderful Things"

Then
Debut: 1995 as a supplement to a magazine, changed to its current format in January 2000
Original editor: Mark Frauenfelder
Average daily page views in January 2000: 300 per day
Now
Current editors: Mark Frauenfelder, Cory Doctorow, David Pescovitz, Xeni Jardin, John Battelle
Worldwide unique visitors in May 2007: 1 million

DrudgeReport.com: This news aggregator (and its occasional flashing siren) has spawned a new term among journalists: "to be Drudged."

Then
Debut: 1994, as a weekly subscriber-based email
Founder: Matt Drudge
Monthly page views: Not given
Becomes early Internet sensation when Drudge reports that Newsweek has killed a story about an intern sex-scandal in the Clinton Administration
Now
Worldwide unique visitors in May 2007: 1.4 million

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Nota al margen: miren las caras de Barger (el creador de los blogs arriba mencionado), Richard Stallman (GNU project, free software) y Jon Hall (Linux). Estos muchachos, ademas de su pasion por el software y las computadoras, comparten ciertos criterios esteticos, no?