Let Me Milk The Subject…

Two days left till Blogs Dominicanos is launched!!! I am hopefull that it will attract more Dominican Bloggers, Readers, and Enthusiasts into what has been growing at a steady rate over the last few years…

Here are some articles on the history of Web Logs…

2/23/00: Wired. “Thanks to new easy-to-use software, the number of weblogs on the Net seems to be growing at an unprecedented rate.”

8/2/99: New York Times. “Summaries of news predate the Internet, of course. But in the digital era, when virtually anyone with Net access can operate an electronic clipping service, the genre has spawned thousands of news hounds — not to mention the news links on big portal sites like Yahoo and Excite. Yet, largely through grass-roots, word-of-mouse popularity, sites like Romenesko’s are catching on with a discerning crowd — including reporters and editors of many news organizations, who rely on the sites to help filter the welter of information on the Web.”

5/28/99: Salon. “Weblogs, typically, are personal Web sites operated by individuals who compile chronological lists of links to stuff that interests them, interspersed with information, editorializing and personal asides. A good weblog is updated often, in a kind of real-time improvisation, with pointers to interesting events, pages, stories and happenings elsewhere on the Web. New stuff piles on top of the page; older stuff sinks to the bottom.”