Definition and History of Blogging and Blogosphere
Definition:
Blogging is a A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links
A blog is often a mixture of what is happening in a person's life and what is happening on the Web, a kind of hybrid diary/guide site, although there are as many unique types of blogs as there are people
Blogs are alternatively called web logs or weblogs. However, "blog" seems less likely to cause confusion, as "web log" can also mean a server's log files
History:
June 1993 -The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) started a What’s New list of sites. Notably the site provided entries sorts by date and the What’s New links included commentary. This service was eventually taken over by Netscape in what became on of the more popular web sites of its time.
In January 199- Justin Hall launches Justin’s Home Page which would later become Links from the Underground. The site included links to and reviews of other sites. Notably on 10 January 1996, Hall commences writing an online journal with dated daily entries, although each daily post is linked by through an index page. Of the journal he writes
“Some days, before I go to bed, I think about my day, and how it meshed with my life, and I write a little about what learned me.”
In February 1996- Dave Winer writes a weblog that chronicles the 24 Hours of Democracy Project.
In April, Winer launches a news page for users of Frontier Software, that goes onto became Scripting News in 1997, one of the oldest weblogs remaining on the net today. The company he heads, Userland goes on to release Radio Userland, one of the first blogging software tools.
December 1997 - Jorn Barger introduced the term weblog into popular use in, blogging as we now know it continued to develop.
In early 1999- Peter Merholz coins the term blog after announcing he was going to pronounce web blogs as “we blog”, that was then shortened to blog. At this stage, a list maintened by Jesse James Garrett recorded that there were 23 known weblogs in existence.
As blogging started to grow in 1999, the first portal dedicated to listing blogs was launched, Brigitte Eaton launched the Eatonweb Portal. Eaton evaluated all submissions by a simple assessment that the site consist of dated entries, one of the criteria we use to day in identifying a blog.
In August 1999, Pyra Labs, today owned by Google, launches the free Blogger blogging service, that for the first time provides an easy set of tools for anyone to set up a blog. Other services launched around the same time include Pitas and Groksoup, neither of which capture the imagination of bloggers in the same way as Blogger did.
As of December 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 112 million blogs
Role of QL Blogging Qatar Group in Blogging:
One member asked this question out of his curiosity "What do the people in this group do exactly?"
In my own humble opinion. One aim of this group is to help bloggers in Qatar to be a part of blogosphere.
blogosphere is the collective community of all blogs.The term implies that blogs exist together as a connected community (or as a collection of connected communities) or as a social network in which everyday authors can publish their opinions. It promotes friedship among bloggers writers and readers. Since all blogs are on the internet by definition, they may be seen as interconnected and socially networked, through blogrolls, comments, linkbacks (refbacks, trackbacks or pingbacks) and backlinks. Discussions "in the blogosphere" have been used by the media as a gauge of public opinion on various issues.
I'm just wishing that my site http://www.buhayqatar.com will be allowed by Qatari to join the blogosphere of Qatar LIving.
