About Them Blogs.

Here's another Wikipedia link, this one to the information we need to memorize on the history and state of blogging:

Blogs

Through this site, my lectures, and your Googling, you're responsible for knowing:

- the origin of the word "blog"
- the highlights of the history of blogging
- the evolution of blogs from online diaries
- the rough # of blogs currently online
- types of blogs and their names
- how blog popularity is tracked and rated
- some of the cases where blogging has led to lawsuits, firings, and so on