Weblogs rack up a decade of posts
The word was an abbreviation for the ‘logging’ of interesting ‘web’ sites that John Barger,who coined the word, featured on his regularly updated journal.
A decade later, the blog-watching firm, Technorati, tracks more than 70 millions of weblogs. In a certain way, weblogs replace the diaries people used to keep up regularly.
For some time after Mr Barger coined the term, very few people were regular users. Some official numbers estimate the blogosphere was limited to 23 sites in the late 1998. One year later, the editing tools got easier and easier to use and users got much more involved in writing and maintaining this sort of websites.
Weblogs are now an incontrovertible part of the Web and a worldwide phenomenon. Technorati tallies 120,000 new blogs created every day with a total of 17 posts added per second (1,5 millions a day).
Source: European Journalism Centre
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