01/03/2002 Archived Entry - "Blogging - Best Story of 2001"

(from my greymatter-powered hypermart-hosted blog)

This link was mentioned at Blogger.com Nextdraft

Best Web Story of the Year

Blogger (and weblogging trend). It's a tool
that enables thousands and thousands of
individuals to self-publish. It has made
web celebrities of many and has sparked a
movement that will greatly impact the way we
filter news, get information, and think of
community. Oh yeah, and since the funding environment
went south, Blogger has had only one fulltime employee.
That, friends, is a little thing we call the internet.

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(another blog posting from that same day)

01/03/2002 Archived Entry: "Blogging - A Wonder of the Web"

Blogger.com was named one of the top seven wonders of the web for 2001

E-Bay, Yahoo and Google were also on the list.

Read more about Blogger here or from the above link.

7 Blogger

Few websites can claim to have radically changed the face of the wider web. Blogger is one site that has managed that.

By offering a simple route to "push-button publishing for the people" Blogger has given birth to a generation of weblogs, or blogs, which simply wouldn't have existed otherwise. Along the way, it has helped make the world wide web a vastly more interesting place.

A few years ago, home pages were almost universally dull, because creating them was a fiddle that made it just too tempting to post and forget. Most became sleepy relics.

Then came Blogger and, suddenly, it was easy to create a dynamic, constantly changing website. The creative talents of people who otherwise couldn't be bothered with web authoring were set loose.

Adding a new entry to your online journal can take just seconds, takes little or no technical knowledge and is published - as it promises on the front page - at the push of a button. Evan Williams, one of its founders, is a contributor to the End of Free weblog (Endoffree) which suggests that one day we will have to pay for Blogger's usefulness. But, with new functionality being promised for the New Year, us regular users would happily stump up.
Neil McIntosh

#blogging - #history