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The Origin of Blogs and blogging

  Dear readers, moving forward our timeline about the roots of blogs and blogging, that was narrated in the first part of my blog, let's proceed talking about next period which a new paradigm arrives in the blog world.

  Blogging come into a time that could be called in my viewpoint "Update Era". It all started when the newspaper Charlotte Observer sent a team of journalists to cover the hurricane Bonnie. Editors of this newspaper observing their competitors would have advantage over their journalists as for publishing fast fresh material about hurricane, decided to set up a blog. So, they began to update Bonnie's blog with photos and informations about its path and damage, what caused Charlotte's Observer page reach high rates of views.

  From early 2000's the blogosphere has experienced a growth period, featured by the rising of several important platforms that you and I maybe use currently. Initially, it saw crop up political and in-depth topic blogs.Political consultants, news organizations used blogs as vehicles for spreading their editorial opinion and so reaching out more and more readers and viewers. What started with Movable Type, evolved for other platforms like Typepad, Wordpress, Audioblogger. 2003 was the year of Google create the AdSense service, which allowed users to make money through your blogging work. Study of 2005 estimated over 32 million of Americans have already read blogs. The blogs definitely went mainstream.

  What comes next is the rise of microblogs and tumblogs. it's great example of this kind Twitter, Tumblr and Posterous. What these services provided with us were: the blogging service linked to a social network experience at the same time.

  Tumblr, released in 2007, allows users to blog in several formats as well as repost content to other users inside own network. Posterous, born in 2008, let users not  only set up a blog via email, but also update it by email too.

  The future of blogging is innovative. Audience awaits new methods of acess, research and sharing of its content. That's the real scenario for blogs: evolution! Maybe, blogs as we know today, can dissapear, making room for a tool where the new technologies are integrated in just one place.

  What won't disappear for sure is the wish of bloggers of sharing what they wish with the world!

  See you guys!