Blogging Facts
Starting from the blogging history; In 1998, only a handful of blogs existed, and many of the bloggers knew each other and linked to each other's sites.
Rebecca Blood, author of The Weblog Handbook, notes that one preeminent site listed only 23 blogs in existence at the beginning of 1999.
The media started noticing blogs later in 1999 and drew attention to the phenomenon. But it was the proliferation of free weblog-creation programs in 1999 that made blogging into a hugely popular pastime.
Bloggers was released in August 1999 and was an immediate hit. By October 2000, Blogger users were creating 300 new blogs a day, and the Blogger directory had over 5,500 blogs listed. In November of the same year, the 10,000th Blogger weblog was created. As of 2002, Blogger claimed over 750,000 users.
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more information on this as per yor records
Hi great support, it encourages me to share more with u all:
In January 1994, Justin Hall student of Swarthmore college, created first blog ever
As of now 120,000 new blogs are created every day .
These numbers shows that how competition is increasing each day in blogging world
thanks Jayanta, i would appreciate if more people can add more info,
Another fact: 60% of bloggers are between the age group of 18-44 years
Woh, Jayant good info, more is here;
One in five bloggers think that newspapers will hardly survive for the next ten years. Half believe that blogs will be a primary source for news and entertainment in the next five years.
But accountablity and crediblity(of Blog posts , content ) have always been an issue ,don't you think So ?
yes thats true, but that is a fact with all types of information, people will always have different opinions and views about the same issue, and a small fact will be presented with lot of masala.
blogs are also the same but here we have the right of full expression.
so what u are saying that in 10 years the news we get will be like sitting around in gopalan's chai kada and gossiping on current topics...albiet a cyber one...i like it!
Great facts shared Rohan, thanks.
That is an interesting perspective to look at blogging as a news aggregating medium . It will furthre raise issues like credibility and authenticity of the content . But then again that is a part of any new concept . Infact it is hardly new , sites like mashable.com have already undergone metamorphosis to be leading tech news aggregator and changed the way most tech update entities function and to a certain extent even their earnings .
Yes Arti there is lot more which can be explored about blogging.
yes tys the news shall be shared like that 10 years from now, and a lot more which we can't even imagine today
welcome Viru, let us add more stuff, and let us explore the blogging history further.
I just discovered Blogsofnote. http://blogsofnote.blogspot.com/
Great facts on blogging. thank you for sharing.
Also, I stumbled across this site from google. It gives blogging statistics and user share in US and globally.
http://www.b2bsocialmediaguide.com/2011/04/04/blogging-statistics-2/
I think the following wikipedia link tells much about history of blogging and is one stop website for many facts:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_blogging
thats really informative. didnt know bloggers had so much impact in politics in the west, thnks :)
yes really cool Himanshu, thanks for adding it here.
thanks and u r welcome abhi, thanks for sharing this link here.
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