Comments on: Archiving Blogs and the Blogosphere http://www.blogherald.com/2007/12/03/archiving-blogs-and-the-blogosphere/ The leading source of news covering social media and the blogosphere. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:30:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Harald Felgner & the Red Fez http://www.blogherald.com/2007/12/03/archiving-blogs-and-the-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-293137 Harald Felgner & the Red Fez Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:01:38 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/12/03/archiving-blogs-and-the-blogosphere/#comment-293137 <strong>&126/ Anniversary Galore: Weblog</strong> Yesterday: 60 years transistor. August 6: 16 years World Wide Web. Today: 10 years Weblog - according to the BBC. We had an earlier take on this and it seems that blogging history is controversial: BBC, Web Worker Daily and... &126/ Anniversary Galore: Weblog

Yesterday: 60 years transistor. August 6: 16 years World Wide Web. Today: 10 years Weblog – according to the BBC. We had an earlier take on this and it seems that blogging history is controversial: BBC, Web Worker Daily and…

]]> By: Anne Helmond http://www.blogherald.com/2007/12/03/archiving-blogs-and-the-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-279286 Anne Helmond Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:11:51 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/12/03/archiving-blogs-and-the-blogosphere/#comment-279286 Once I get home I am going to dig up the CD-ROM with a backup of my first website on it. I sure hope it still works though as I recently noticed some of my old backups don't work anymore. I hardly remember what my first site looked like, I think I updated it with a "new" reference. It is impossible to "name" a phenomenon in retrospect and than decide who was doing "it" and who wasn't. I also think that what we now consider to be a blog is different than years ago when terms such as weblog and blog originated. Media and practices evolve which some people like and some people don't ("this is not a blog"). A whole book could/should be written on the subject ;) Once I get home I am going to dig up the CD-ROM with a backup of my first website on it. I sure hope it still works though as I recently noticed some of my old backups don’t work anymore. I hardly remember what my first site looked like, I think I updated it with a “new” reference.

It is impossible to “name” a phenomenon in retrospect and than decide who was doing “it” and who wasn’t. I also think that what we now consider to be a blog is different than years ago when terms such as weblog and blog originated. Media and practices evolve which some people like and some people don’t (“this is not a blog”). A whole book could/should be written on the subject ;)

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://www.blogherald.com/2007/12/03/archiving-blogs-and-the-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-278518 Lorelle VanFossen Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:25:03 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/12/03/archiving-blogs-and-the-blogosphere/#comment-278518 Interesting perspective on the "history of blogs". My personal site was started in 1994, but became what is known as a blog in 1996, including more personal stories and news than just articles. The chronological method of displaying content I started a year before, but it was all done manually. Any "archiving", a term which needs more definition, was done by the creation of a static page for each article/blog post. The front and category pages were created manually with excerpts, linking to the physical page. I guess that's an archive, right? The dynamic aspect of what came to be known alternately as CMS and blog platforms removed the manual creation of these pages, making the process SO much easier. Does that mean my site was one of the first? No. Among the first, sure. However, it took a very long time for me to call that website a blog. I still call it a website. I have blogs, and that site is run on WordPress, but it's not a "blog" in my mind, even after all these years. Finding the "first blog" might make things more complicated as some of us were blogging before we knew what blogging was, and even now, have issues with the label. Interesting twist, huh? :D Interesting perspective on the “history of blogs”. My personal site was started in 1994, but became what is known as a blog in 1996, including more personal stories and news than just articles.

The chronological method of displaying content I started a year before, but it was all done manually. Any “archiving”, a term which needs more definition, was done by the creation of a static page for each article/blog post. The front and category pages were created manually with excerpts, linking to the physical page. I guess that’s an archive, right?

The dynamic aspect of what came to be known alternately as CMS and blog platforms removed the manual creation of these pages, making the process SO much easier.

Does that mean my site was one of the first? No. Among the first, sure. However, it took a very long time for me to call that website a blog. I still call it a website. I have blogs, and that site is run on WordPress, but it’s not a “blog” in my mind, even after all these years.

Finding the “first blog” might make things more complicated as some of us were blogging before we knew what blogging was, and even now, have issues with the label. Interesting twist, huh? :D

]]> By: Anne Helmond » Busy Writing and Enjoying a (8)Bit of Culture http://www.blogherald.com/2007/12/03/archiving-blogs-and-the-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-278153 Anne Helmond » Busy Writing and Enjoying a (8)Bit of Culture Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:25:24 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/12/03/archiving-blogs-and-the-blogosphere/#comment-278153 [...] finished the chapter on the history of blogs and blog engines and wrote a related post on ‘Archiving Blogs and the Blogosphere‘ for the Blog [...] [...] finished the chapter on the history of blogs and blog engines and wrote a related post on ‘Archiving Blogs and the Blogosphere‘ for the Blog [...]

]]> By: rexblog.com: Rex Hammock’s weblog » Blog Archive » links for 2007-12-04 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/12/03/archiving-blogs-and-the-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-277552 rexblog.com: Rex Hammock’s weblog » Blog Archive » links for 2007-12-04 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:32:08 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2007/12/03/archiving-blogs-and-the-blogosphere/#comment-277552 [...] Archiving Blogs and the Blogosphere | The Blog Herald As blogs are becoming a more mature medium, research into the history of blogs becomes even more relevant. (tags: blogosphere blogs) [...] [...] Archiving Blogs and the Blogosphere | The Blog Herald As blogs are becoming a more mature medium, research into the history of blogs becomes even more relevant. (tags: blogosphere blogs) [...]

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