Cyberbaguioboy

In my case that’s close to 3 years now since I started. It is actually the same age as my second daughter’s. She’s turning 3 on April 15

Bloggers worldwide celebrated 10 years of blogging, while Catholic Filipinos celebrated Holy Week. But do check New York Times magazine’s timeline of blogging. It reveals that the first blog was actually produced in 1994 by student Justin Hall. So that makes 13 years of blogging. In 1994, Jorn Barger coins the word “weblog.” He currently maintains the Robot Wisdom blog.

Okay that’s a lot of information you have to remember

I guess the issue on who started it will spark a debate. But the important point here is that blogging has changed the way we live, play, and relate to people. It has changed our lifestyles. Admit it. You’d rather be somewhere else right now if you weren’t blogging. In my case, I might have been out having breakfast with a book in hand. Well, that picture has totally changed since I got hooked. Several years back, I would open my computer to check news then my e-mail every morning. Today, I open my blog after breezing through my Google Alerts, answering High Priority e-mail messages. It takes me a while to figure out what to write about. I maintain a handful of blogs –mostly for non-profit. So I write from the hip. I write what comes to mind immediately.

When I found that it’s been 10 or 13 years since the first blog was written, I thought I should also look back and see where has this innovation in social networking taken me. Here goes (this is based on my poor memory):

• 2004: My second daughter Fiona Celine was born into this world. Got excited and blogged about it on Blogspot.
• late 2004: Daughter was growing up fast. Running out of things to say. Decided to shift to a personal blog. I chose “loves blogs, tech, and guitar” as a one-liner to identify my blog’s theme.
• 2005: Left Blogspot/blogger and moved to Wordpress. Never looked back.
• 2006: Created more blogs on Wordpress but eventually most were abandoned. Was a certified blog addict!
• 2007: Changed one liner on blog to “New Media Me” hoping to focus on how blogging has affected my journalism career.
• March 2007: Nominated and made it to the finals of the Philippine Blog Awards 2007. Lost to Inside PCIJ. Also started blogging for our news website. We called ourselves Blog Addicts.