Why 2004 was the year of the blog
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The term &quot;blog&quot; has been chosen as the top word of 2004 by a US dictionary publisher. Merriam-Webster said &quot;blog&quot; headed the list of most looked-up terms on its site during the last twelve months.
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2004 in review It wasn&#39;t quite the &#39;Year of Digital Music&#39;, but 2004 certainly paved the way for 2005 to take that title.
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Talk about your communications revolutions -- at no time in history has it been easier to share ideas with the masses. A decade after "weblog" enters the cultural vocabulary, the web publishing phenomenon continues to grow and change.
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As I was looking back over my folder of this yearâs columns, e-mail newsletters and blog posts, I was struck by one thing: how much I wrote about cellphones. Cellphones and cellphone services made news with amazing frequency, making it clear that this service-we-love-to-hate is still in its crude Neanderthal age. In particular, 2007 was the [...].
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The most requested online definition this year was &quot;blog&quot; - a word not even yet officially in the dictionary, Merriam-Webster says.
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Microsoft Corp. made a belated entrance into the "blogosphere" Thursday, unveiling a free Web-log publishing service one day after Merriam-Webster Inc. proclaimed "blog" the word of the year.
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Paul Abrahams' comparison of blogs with the CB radio fad may or may not prove to be right, but too many of us are missing the wider influence of user-generated media.   It is not just bloggers who are influencing corporate reputations online.
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As long as I've been involved in the tech industry there's been the concept of The Year of X, where X has been artificial intelligence, personal information managers, local area networks, CD-ROMs, P2P. Proclaimed by tech pubs, most likely to help their ad sales reps sell space, they focused the attention on areas the industry was investing money, in hopes of being there when lightning strikes, when wealth is created, as it often is in the tech industry. Sometimes the "year of" prognostications are right, more often they're wrong.  In that sense, there's no doubt that 2007 is the year of the social network in Silicon Valley. This may not be the year when huge wealth is created, but I don't doubt that the area is fertile, and I don't say that lightly, because I'm often a contrarian when it comes to self-induced Silicon Valley euphoria. There are a couple of ideas I've been getting ready to write about, I'm not quite ready yet, but here they are anyway. 1. When people get together to discuss Twitter, and perhaps other social networks (and Twitter is that, a bare-bones social network), they often discuss as if there were a common user experience, but this is a misperception, there are many different experiences, they may group into large subsets of the users, and they may not. Some food for thought. On Twitter I try to keep a ten percent ratio of people I follow over people who follow me. For other people, maybe most, the ratio is 1-to-1, they follow approximately the same number of people as follow them. Scoble follows thousands of people. For him Twitter is like a very fast chatroom. For me it's like weblogs.com on a busy day in 2002. I've seen people who follow 0 people, for them Twitter is a publishing environment. Very different experiences. To each of them Twitter is a different product. Note that when reporters cover Twitter, before they've become users, they probably write about the home page at Twitter, where complete strangers report on the kind of spaghetti sauce they like. That may be why so many articles dismiss Twitter as useless.  2. Integration is so tempting, but elusive. The other day a friend on Twitter wrote about a movie he liked. I looked it up on the NY Times movie review site (a newly revealed location now that their archive is open and a very valuable one, another topic I plan to cover, the wealth of the NY Times archive). I would have then liked to have clicked over to Netflix to order it. And even better, I'd have liked to have looked at what other movies he likes. Now we're very close to having this, we just need a way to co-relate two identity systems, Twitter's and Netflix's. And think of the value in integrating Amazon with Twitter. The mind explodes at the possibilities. This is what I meant when I said earlier "they&#185;re not trivial problems, they&#185;ve been there since the Internet outgrew academia and started being used for commercial purposes." This issue is now coming to a head, as the users can see the next step clearly. How to integrate the systems is known technology, but it's not a solved problem economically and politically. We need to get clear on the opportunities, and feel free to dream when the barriers between the networks come down.
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The most requested online definition this year was "blog" &#151; a word not even yet officially in the dictionary, Merriam-Webster says.
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Readership is up, but most Web surfers still don't know what blogs are.
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The word "weblog" is celebrating 10 years since it was first coined to describe online journals.
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Radio had its golden age in the 1930s. In the 1950s, it was television's turn. Historians may well date the golden age of the blog from 2004--when Merriam-Webster.com's most searched--for definition was blog. How long can it last? Who knows? Here's what we discovered about the new medium this year
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Readership of online journals known as blogs grew significantly in 2004, driven by increased awareness of them during the presidential campaign and other major news events, according to a study released Sunday.
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In this article I've selected what I consider to be some of the past year's outstanding achievements in the world of Linux music and sound software. It's not really a "Best Of 2007", it's just my personal choices for what I found most interesting and significant in the past year.  read more
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Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:Yet Another Web Development Blog: A PHP Developer Spends a Week with PythonZend Developer Zone: AJAX Chat Tutorial Pt 5: Javascript, Sending Chat Messages, Screen Name ChangesWebDevLogs: ClickHeat - PHP+JS heatmapTemplora.com: Basic PHP Script SecurityVinu Thomas' Blog: Modifying your MySQL databases to be UTF-8 compliantJeff Moore's Blog: PDO versus MDB2AnyExample.com: PHP password generationJason Palmer's Blog: Zip Code To LocationThe Bakery Blog: A gift for all to enjoySara Golemon's Blog: PHP-2006: A look backMatthew O'Phinney's Blog: Overloading arrays in PHP 5.2.0Davey Shafik's Blog: A Year in Review (2006)Jacques Marneweck's Blog: Smarty tip for including multiple javascript filesphp|architect: Final days of our iPod Training Promo!Alexander Netkachev's Blog: About Eclipse PHP IDE php.ini location
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My Xbox 360 has a blog, and it's starting to get on my nerves.
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Graceful breakup announcements, photogenic small animals, outrageous slurs: a look back at 2007.