Comments on: There is no “first blogger”

By: clfagan

clfagan — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:55:31 +0000

Who was the first American Blogger?

In an antiquated world with no technology, Benjamin Franklin stood alone as the first and foremost blogger and social networker.

Franklin’s editorials were printed weekly in almost every newspaper in the American colonies, much like the blogs people post today. And each day of the week for over twenty years, he penned pithy sayings in Poor Richard’s Almanac—sayings that at under a hundred and forty characters long could easily be considered the same as tweets today. He also corresponded with over six hundred people worldwide by snail-mail on a yearly basis, more names than most people have in their entire email address book.

In extensive research on Ben Franklin for my new historical time travel novel, Lightning Strikes the Colonies, (to be published November 1st) it was interesting to learn that this incredible humanitarian, scientist, and journalist was the first to network world wide.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:45:55 +0000

Hard or impossible to define it.

By: sohbet

sohbet — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:49:32 +0000

Thanks for the theme. I will just still have to get a different header image.

By: original oil paintings

original oil paintings — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:37:55 +0000

The reason why we can’t find someone who can be called as the true first blogger is because our minds are set to the notion that a blog is a web log that is almost the same as a complete web site. The blogger must be able to handle technical skills so that his blog can have all the features that we see in famous blogs nowadays.

By: gifts

gifts — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:42:41 +0000

I guess finding the world’s ‘first’ blogger would be impossible, but I’m sure we could find who the world’s first successful blogger was (or, most read blogger – depending on what you mean by ’successful’.) I think its crazy the way blogging has really taken over, and it certainly has already becoming a normal thing in society and how we get our information (and, who carries influence etc.) Very interesting indeed!

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Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:43:06 +0000

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By: George Vateor

George Vateor — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 04:21:42 +0000

http://www.linkedin.com/in/debber

Here may be one of the first real bloggedrs.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 03:09:38 +0000

Wonderful Article i enjoyed reading it, thanks for sharing with us!

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By: Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard » Blog Archive » My Guardian piece on blog history

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:33:30 +0000

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