People keep asking me where the term "blog" came from, so I did a little digging. This is what I came up with:

Justin Hall (photo above) is widely known as the earliest blogger. He began over 11 years of his web-based diary in 1994 while studying at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, although at that time blogging had no official name.

Check out his blog at: httep://www.links.net/vita/. It's really cool.

In 1997, Jorn Barger, who, incidentally, is also famous for "Robot Wisdom" (or cybernetic psychology), came up with the term "weblog" to describe the process of "logging the web" while he surfed. The shorter version, "blog", then was coined by Peter Merholz in 1999, who decided to pronounce it "wee-blog". This term was soon shortened to 'blog' , and the weblog editor was called a 'blogger'.

Numerous bloggers view blogging as a means of 'Open Source Politics', whereby people can have more direct participatation in the political sphere. Blogging is also seen as a way to sidestep the media filter and get messages out more directly to the public.

So there you go.