Duncan Riley starts a thread on the origins of blogging, sparked by a Wall Street Journal piece.
I got involved in the discussion, and along the way dug up an archive.org version of BlogTree.com, specifically the page for Scripting News.
Scott Rosenberg, who started covering blogs in 1999 in Salon, responds to the WSJ story.
Last update: Thursday, June 3, 2010; 4:01:13 PM
~About the Author~
Dave Winer, 55, is a visiting scholar at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He pioneered the development of weblogs, syndication (RSS), podcasting, outlining, and web content management software; former contributing editor at Wired Magazine, research fellow at Harvard Law School, entrepreneur, and investor in web media companies. A native New Yorker, he received a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, a Bachelor's in Mathematics from Tulane University and currently lives in New York City.
"RSS was born in 1997 out of the confluence of Dave Winer's 'Really Simple Syndication' technology, used to push out blog updates, and Netscape's 'Rich Site Summary', which allowed users to create custom Netscape home pages with regularly updated data flows." - Tim O'Reilly.
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