On Jorn Barger’s 10 Tips For Bloggers

Sometime in 1997, Jorn Barger coined the term weblog, which was a collection of links to various stuff on the web that he somehow found interesting. Now, he gives to Wired 10 tips he thinks all bloggers should know.

Here’s the first one.

A true weblog is a log of all the URLs you want to save or share. (So del.icio.us is actually better for blogging than blogger.com.)

Erm, this is 2008. and we’re not doing it like that anymore, Jorn. Not that there’s anything wrong with a linkblog, but blogs are something else. Sometimes, when you coin a term, it takes a meaning of its own over the years.

Needless to say, all his other points are completely irrelevant to bloggers, but are quite cool if you have a linkblog.

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  1. Avatar Says:

    no, this is not 2008 yet, i guess you are to eager for the year to end.

    and his pints are still valid, considering the top 100 bloggers (not from a network) follow pretty much alll of his points just adapted to know, one clear example of this would be Scoble, kotke and of course Evan Williams.

    but i know you like to disrespect the elders.

  2. Stan Schroeder Says:

    @Avatar: haha, yeah I guess I’m sick of 07. I’m just going to leave 2008 up there, time will prove me right in the end (;.

    And no, I don’t agree with you. The guys you named are just too busy to do any real blogging. If they weren’t they’d probably write more and do less copy/pasting.

  3. robojiannis Says:

    It got me also wondering, why his tips got so much attention. Kind of out-dated.

    Although he says that his principles were understood in 1998-99.

  4. Matthew Griffin Says:

    It is interesting that the person who coined the term weblog could be so out of touch with the modern definition. This is a phenomenon unique to the web world. In what other context would you have “accidental” pioneers of an idea this huge?

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