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Someone who turned a diary into a business model and called it content.
means A person who writes and publishes posts on a blog, often regularly and on a particular topic or obsession.
from From 'web log,' a term for an online record of entries in reverse-chronological order. It got clipped to 'weblog,' and a joking misreading split that into 'we blog,' giving birth to 'blog' as both noun and verb in the late 1990s. 'Blogger' followed naturally as the person doing the blogging — and was later cemented in public memory as the name of Google's blogging platform, launched in 1999.
- origin
- short for weblog, coined in 1997
- peak era
- 2000s, before platforms ate the open web
- modern form
- rebranded as newsletter writer or creator
- secret truth
- still just journaling, now with SEO