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Blogs

Allaura Dabbene
Alicia Caprielian
Alexa Foster
What are blogs?
History of Blogs
Timeline of Blogs
History of Blogs
What is a blog? Online journal of a person or company that is open to the public
1997: Term blog came from weblog coined by Jorn Barger
Timeline
1994: First blog Link.net created by college student Justin Hall
Rapid Growth:1994: 34 blogs 2006: 50 million blogs
Early Blogs: Popular among Politicians
1998: Open Diary founded and Live Journal
Timeline
1999: Blogger creates first free blog-creation service which spikes popularity
2000: Boing Boing and AndrewSullivan.com created
Blogs delving more into critical current issues and debates, as well as critiquing traditional media
Timeline
Feb. 2002: Heather Armstrong fired for discussing her
job on her blog called Dooce
Timeline
Aug. 2002: Nick Denton launches Gizmodo
Dec. 2002: Gawker is created: Gossip-blog boom
2005: Huffington Post blog created
Timeline
2005: Study shows that 32 million Americans read blogs, more than 10% of the US population

2010: 152 million active
blogs
Different Forms of Blogs
Tumblr
Vlogs (Video Blogs)
Tumblr in Depth
Developed: 2006
Launched: February 2007; 75,000 users
Creator: David Karp
Owner Currently: Yahoo; 1.1billion.
February 7th 2014; 170.2 million blogs
Purpose: Microblogging/ Multimedia
Tumblr Slowing Declining
Vlogging
Strong increase in 2005
YouTube
Movie critics, comedy
Discussion Questions
1. What do you think the future of blogging looks like?
2. Has social networking and social media made an impact on blogging?
3. How often do you read blogs?
Sources
Wikipedia:Tumblr
New York Magazine: History of Blogs
History of Blogging

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