Playfully with Foxie – AN INTERVIEW with a sex blogger
Just about everyone knows that a blog is a web application containing posts by a single author. But do you know how the word came about? It’s a contraction of the two English words “web log”, which can be translated into Czech as “web log, notebook”. The term “weblog” was reportedly coined by a certain Jorn Barger in December 1997. However, the term seemed too long, so another internet wizard, Peter Merholz, shortened it to “blog”. Reportedly in April or May 1999, he split the word “weblog” into the phrase “we blog” in the navigation bar of his weblog. Another interesting fact is that “weblogger,” shortened to “blogger,” has an even shorter Czech form with a single “g”—“bloger.” But enough lecturing.