Marking the 10th anniversary of the blog

December 23, 1997
Marking the 10th anniversary of the blog
 It has been 10 years since Jorn Barger started gathering links to items he liked, adding some of his own comments, and putting them on a Website.
 On December 23, 1997 on his Robot Wisdom site, he wrote: “I decided to start my own Web page, logging the best stuff I find as I surf on a daily basis.” The Oxford English Dictionary says his statement is the root of the word “Weblog,” now referred to as blog.
 Others were doing similar things at the same time, but Barger announced what he was doing and has been named as the first blogger. By June 2007, Technorati counted 89.4 million blogs, but most spell check programs don’t recognize the word. 
 Blogs have evolved from being mainly a series of links to including more lengthy and opinionated writings. Some of them should probably never be stated, but expressing opinions is what a blog is all about.
 Newspaper people, who constantly check facts before printing, are shocked by what appears on blogs. On the other hand, blogs provide with a source for investigative ideas.
 Today, blog surfing is made easier by software or Websites known as news aggregates or readers. They include Google reader (google.com/reader), Bloglines (bloglines.com), and Netvibes (netvibes.com).
 Instead of going from one blog to the next, a user signs into the site where he stores a list of blogs to be tracked. The reader scans the list for new entries.
 Once you have a collection of blogs you are tracking, you can sort them into different categories.
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