Wednesday, February 23, 2005
What Exactly is a Blogger?
Blogger
According to WORLD WIDE WORDS,
A blogger is a person who keeps a Web log, or blog for short.
The idea started sometime in 1998, but really caught on in 2000,
to the extent that there are now thousands of bloggers and blogs about.
I’ve been blogging since May 2003.
How about You?
At the beginning, the concept was that a person kept a diary of their explorations of the World Wide Web, making it public for others to inspect and follow up.
But as blogging has expanded, that simple idea has been so much modified that it is now difficult to get two bloggers to agree on what the term means.
Many blogs are online diaries chronicling activities and events as they happen to the writer, often with no reference to the Web at all.
Some writers create only brief entries, while others provide extended essays on life, the universe and everything.
There are several sites where people can create accounts and publish their blogs, most notably www.blogger.com, where blogs often have names like The Magnificent Melting Object, or Exploits of a Dwarf Lover.
