In 1997 I was still in school. I didn’t know what a blog was. Dave Winer and Doc Searls were blogging. I made my entrance into blogging a few years later. It’s very much at the center of my life. Strangely enough 10 years ago I could build a desk and I didn’t know much about blogs. Today I can’t put together a simple desk.
Many people didn’t think blogging would make it this long. I’m sure as heck glad it did. Here’s to another 10 years of blogging. I will be 37 by then and hopefully will have made as many mistakes as I did these last 10 years.
Originally posted on February 26, 2007 @ 3:21 am
I think it’s important to note that Dave Winer wasn’t the first blog/ blogger and that blogging pre-dates Dave to Justin Hall, not by a lot mind you, but it does.
Who cares Duncan? What’s the point of knowing who was first? Exactly why is that important? For the geek history books?
Are you one of those guys who wore his concert tshirt to school the next day to prove you knew of the band first?
Jim,
What’s wrong?
For life of our mistakes and not mistakes of our life!
Allen.H
Jim
history is important. It teaches us things like the rise of democracy, the horrors of the hollocaust, and in this instance the rise of decentralized news telling. Knowledge of the past is essential in avoiding mistakes in the future. Dave Winer was recently trying to claim he was the first blogger. He wasn’t, and yes to me it does matter because I believe that history should be recorded accurately and consist of the actual facts of the matter.
As for concert tshirts? WTF? For starters, I’m Australian, like the rest of the civilized world accept the US we have compulsory school uniforms, so the only thing I wore to school was a pressed white collared uniform shirt (PS that was a public school BTW). As for concerts, aside from the occasional visit to a Jazz festival I was too busy making music to listen to others play it. I’m not sure if my face ever made a T-Shirt, but I did on one occasion perform solo on stage at the Sydney Opera House.
History is important. History of who started blogging first, well, ok, I guess that’s important. Ok. Whatever you say.
David, how do you think blogging would have changed in 10 years? :)
To me the first blogger was Benjamin Franklin. Or maybe Samuel Pepys.
When Dave Winer got me blogging in November of 1999, there were already plenty of bloggers, including Dave.
To me blogging is linky journal writing in a form that puts the most recent stuff at the top and archives the rest in a place where it can be found years from now.
But that’s just my definition at the moment . Yours may vary.
As for the next ten years, I just hope I’m alive at the end of them.
I also hope that blogging outlives me.