The blog time-line

December 29th, 2007 at 1:37 pm by David Farrar

NPR has an interesting feature on the evolution of blogs.  They hold Gaius Julius Caesar up as a historical precursor to the military blog.  Certainly it was an near unprecedented thing to have detailed war diaries published back in Rome, and it was part of why he became so popular with the Roman people, outside the Senate.

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One Response to “The blog time-line”

  1. tim barclay (886) Says:

    War diaries that no doubt had him in the starring role. I prefer my fiction straight instead of a self serving vanity project. To call that sort of thing a blog puts a new spin on what blogs really are.

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