The Evolution of The Blogger by Flowtown

Beautiful infographic of The Evolution of The Blogger by Flowtown – Social Media Marketing Application.

There’s one thing that bugs me though: It presents three types of blog formats (the photoblog, the vlog and the linklog) as ‘new blog forms’ that came out of the above mentioned type of bloggers. However, the linklog is one of the oldest forms of the weblog as I described in my thesis on Blogging for Engines. In 1997 Jorn Barger started “logging” the web with interesting links and commentary on his (now called) weblog Robot Wisdom. In an interview with Wired Magazine celebrating the 10th birthday of the weblog he clearly states that these types of blogs, linklogs, are the true weblogs:

1. 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.)
2. You can certainly include links to your original thoughts, posted elsewhere … but if you have more original posts than links, you probably need to learn some humility. (Wired)

Anyway, enjoy the graphic, while I go and learn some humility ;)

Printing my thesis at Felix Offset.

I am happy to announce that my MA thesis titled ‘Blogging for Engines. Blogs under the Influence of Software-Engine Relations’ is finished, handed in, graded and officially approved. It will be published online soon, so stay tuned!

This week I started my new job as a New Media Lecturer/Instructor at the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam. I also work for the Institute of Network Cultures at the Interactive Media department at the Amsterdam Polytechnic (Hogeschool van Amsterdam).

Exciting developments!