Comments on: Blogs turn 10--who's the father?

Blogging has been around for about a decade now--depending on how you define it and whom you ask.

[kcowing]

NASA Watch - online (blogging) since 1996

NASA Watch went online in April 1996 - and as been online ever
since. I was interviewed on PBS' Newshour about it on 29 Nov 1996
- see http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/fedagencies/
nasa_11-29.html - at the time it was called "NASA RIF Watch". I
dropped the "RIF" after a year or so.

Keith Cowing
Editor
nasawatch.com

[Pat Berry]

Steve Jackson Games, blogging since 1994

The Daily Illuminator, published by Steve Jackson Games, is a blog. Its archives go all the way back to November 1994.

What about Diaryland? That's the first one I'd heard of, in 1999. I tried both LiveJournal and Diaryland and went with Diaryland, where I wrote for 8 years.

[acefagan]

Who was the first American Blogger?

In an antiquated world with no technology, Benjamin Franklin stood alone as the first and foremost blogger and social networker.

Franklin?s editorials were printed weekly in almost every newspaper in the American colonies, much like the blogs people post today. And each day of the week for over twenty years, he penned pithy sayings in Poor Richard?s Almanac?sayings that at under a hundred and forty characters long could easily be considered the same as tweets today. He also corresponded with over six hundred people worldwide by snail-mail on a yearly basis, more names than most people have in their entire email address book.

In extensive research on Ben Franklin for my new historical time travel novel, Lightning Strikes the Colonies, (to be published November 1st) it was interesting to learn that this incredible humanitarian, scientist, and journalist was the first to network world wide.