Category: Back in the day, among the set of “bloggers” dubbed by Kotke as “Ye Old Skoole” at some point not retrievable by the wayback machine, Dave Winer and Jorn Barger were some of the most dedicated daily publishers, amongst the “corporate media” of hotwired and suck.
Jorn and Dave wrote very differently. Jorn invented the link blog well early on, adding periodic narrative commentary, while Dave pioneered a software platform punditry and life/industry observation daily rant with publishing automation.
The CNet article focuses on the first dates claimed by both authors in 1997, but the initial defining actions of blogrolls and cross linking between posts really burgeoned from ‘98. It took a few more years to get more complete URI addressability and bi-directional links, but the conversational dynamic really took off in the nineties, culminating in my mind with the launch of blogshares 5 years post-birth, in 2003.
There are lots of other interesting observations thinking back at this point, where blogs are just one flavor of user generated content, a giant conduit of spam, and an officially sold-out, corporate thing with revenue models and duplicitious advertising.
While almost linkbait at this point for CNet, I enjoyed the read:
http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-6168681.html
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