The Word Blog Was First Used By Peter Merholz in 1999.

15 Jan

Peter Merholz is a founding partner, board member, and president of Adaptive Path; a user experience consultancy company.

The original term was of course ‘weblog’, which was coined by the famous anti-semite, Jon Barger, in 1997. The term weblog was lightheartedly split in two on Peter’s own blog PeterMe.com, into the two words ‘We Blog’ in April/May 1999. It wasn’t long after that a guy named Evan Williams of Pyra Labs developed the term into both noun and verb (as in ‘a blog’ and ‘to blog’) and coined his own phrase, ‘Blogger’, for Pyra Labs’ upcoming product called,..well,..Blogger. As David Brin says in ‘The Uplift War’…

“Where subtlety fails us we must simply make do with cream pies”

Obviously, there’s a lot to be said for cream pies since Blogger was bought out by Google in February ‘03 for an undisclosed (read obscene) amount.

Oddly enough, Evan Williams decided to leave Google just a year later to eventually form a new company you may have heard of called ‘Twitter‘ in April ‘09, albeit after a number of slightly failed attempts. By February ‘09, Compete.com ranked Twitter as the third most popular social network, based on their count of 6 million unique monthly visitors and 55 million monthly visits.

What those figures don’t show is that 45 million of those visits were actually to ‘The Fail Whale‘!

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