Brief History of Blog's

"I feel so lost" is what many of our clients say when we start discussing all the various marketing options available using new technology. Especially, when the term "blog" comes up. I assure whoever I'm talking to that actually they are ahead of the curve. Blog's are still very new. How new? Let's take a look...

1997: Bloggers blogging, but don't know it
1999: The terms "weblog" and "blog" created
2004: "Blog" is Webster's word of the year
2004: Pew Internet & American Life:
11% of net users have read blogs
2-7% have created blogs (2.4 of 8.4M blogs)
2005: One new blog created just about every second, every day (86,400 seconds in a day)

Think about it. If blogging was a person, it wouldn't even be out of Middle School yet.

That's why I love it so much. Because it's still so young and can give businesscompetitive a competetitive advantage for little or no cost.

Have you started blogging yet? If you haven't why not? What's holding you back?