Welcome bloggers!
This blog is dedicated to educating fellow bloggers about legal issues,
ethical issues and pitfalls related to blogging.
As we have categorized the information in each blog post,
it would make you understand these issues in a clearer way.
Also, do check out the video that we have done specially for you!
Its a simplified version of what we would be talking about.
Always remember to blog wisely! (:
Note:
To navigate around the blog,
Hover at the top(paperclips) to access our links,
Left (flower) for our profile,
bottom left (buttons) to tag,
and lastly, right (markers) to view our blog.
three cheers for us.
We are from Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore, from a class module called Internet Governance and Law.
This is part of our school project, aiming to bring awareness relating to blogging, to bloggers out there.
Have fun!
5:47 PM
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Timeline of how blog evolved....Hello once again!
Today would be a real simple post. We would like all of you to see how blogging became what it is today. Enjoy!
January 1994: Swarthmore student Justin Hall creates first blog ever, Links.net.
December 1997: Online diarist Jorn Barger coins the term “Weblog” for “logging the Web.”
April 1999: Programmer Peter Merholz shortens “Weblog” to “blog.”
August 1999: Blogger rolls out the first popular, free blog-creation service.
January 2000: Boing Boing is born.
July 2000: AndrewSullivan.com launches.
February 2002: Heather Armstrong is fired for discussing her job on her blog, Dooce. “Dooced” becomes a verb: “Fired for blogging.”
August 2002: Nick Denton launches Gizmodo, the first in what will become a blog empire. Blogads launches, the first broker of blog advertising.
December 2002: Talking Points Memo highlights Trent Lott’s racially charged comments; thirteen days later, Lott resigns from his post as Senate majority leader.
December 2002: Gawker launches, igniting the gossip-blog boom.
March 2003: “Salam Pax,” an anonymous Iraqi blogger, gains worldwide audience during the Iraq war.
June 2003: Google launches AdSense, matching ads to blog content.
August 2003: The first avalanche of ads on political blogs.
September 2003: Jason Calacanis founds Weblogs, Inc., which eventually grows into a portfolio of 85 blogs.
January 2004: Denton launches Wonkette.
March 2004: Calacanis poaches Gizmodo writer Peter Rojas from Denton. Denton proclaims himself “royally shafted” on his personal blog.
December 2004: Merriam-Webster declares “blog” the “Word of the Year.”
January 2005: Study finds that 32 million Americans read blogs.
May 2005: The Huffington Post launches.
October 2005: Calacanis sells his blogs to AOL for $25 million.
December 2005: An estimated $100 million worth of blog ads are sold this year.
January 2006: Time leases Andrew Sullivan’s blog, adding it to its Website.
February 2006: The Huffington Post surges to become fourth most-linked-to blog
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