Tag: New Media
Blogging is ten, maybe twelve, or twenty-four years old
The Wall Street Journal ran an interesting article over the weekend suggesting that blogging is now ten years old.
According to the article, the first blogger is “regarded by many to be Jorn Barger”, who “began his business of hunting and gathering links to items that tickled his fancy, to which he appended some of his own commentary, on Dec. 23, 1997.”
What appears to be closer to the truth is that Jorn Barger was the first person (or one of the first people) to coin the phrase ‘blog’, because other sites reckon that blogging has been around for much longer than a decade.
Citizen Journalism – it's the new 'new media'!
Jonathan Weinberg writes… AFTER the events of the past few days, it’s not difficult to see we’re living in changing times. And if the attempted bomb attacks across the UK prove one thing – it’s that anyone can be a…
