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Thursday, February 07, 2002
http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-020207toolbox.story?coll=chi%2Dtechnology%2Dhed Let's take a jog around the blog By Lou Dolinar, Newsday It's called "blogging," short for "Web logging," and as a mass phenomenon, it may become one of the most enduring legacies of the goofy dot-com era. The recipe: Surf the net, compile links to the most interesting stuff you find, leaven with a bit of punditry and personality, and post to a Web page in the form of a dated online diary.... The formula, which Internet columnist Matt Drudge didn't invent but made famous, is as simple and traditional as white bread. What's changed, in recent years, is the advent of Blogger.com, a fairly trivial Net-based application that proves all the good ideas haven't been taken. With a few clicks, Blogger lets you publish instantly on the Net, along with links to the relevant articles you're discussing. No fuss, no muss, no FTP, no path errors. In the wake of 9/11, as obsession with Web-based news exploded, so did blogging....
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