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The running updates of online diarists combined with links inspired the term 'weblog' which was eventually contracted to form the word 'blog'. In online diaries, people write about their day-to-day experiences, social commentary, complaints, poems, prose, illicit thoughts and any content that might be found in a traditional paper diary or journal.
Penzu is a private online diary-hosting website. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Users can create written entries similar to a standard personal journal and can also upload photos from their devices. [ 3 ] Penzu uses a freemium business model with special paid features including unique fonts, AES encryption , rich text formatting, and others.
Open Diary (often abbreviated as "OD") is an online diary community, an early example of social networking software. It was founded on October 20, 1998. It was founded on October 20, 1998. Open Diary went offline on February 7, 2014, [ 1 ] but was re-launched on January 26, 2018.
The personal blog is an ongoing online diary or commentary written by an individual, rather than a corporation or organization. While the vast majority of personal blogs attract very few readers, other than the blogger's immediate family and friends, a small number of personal blogs have become popular, to the point that they have attracted ...
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Steve Gibson was hired to blog full-time by Ritual Entertainment on February 8, 1997, [7] possibly making him the first hired blogger. Another example of early blogging was the Poster Children online tour diary, started in 1995 by Rose Marshack. [8] The blog was independently invented by Ian Ring in 1997.
Other early online diarists include Justin Hall, who began eleven years of personal online diary-writing in 1994, [9] Carolyn Burke, who started publishing Carolyn's Diary on 3 January 1995, [10] and Bryon Sutherland, who announced his diary The Semi-Existence of Bryon in a USENET newsgroup on 19 April 1995. [11]
An escribitionist is a person who keeps a diary or journal via electronic means, and in particular, publishes their entries on the World Wide Web.The word was coined in June 1999 by Erin Venema, an online diarist, in the course of a discussion on a mailing list for web journalers.