Hmm... Park's physics weekly predated the word blog, but that is what it was.
I can think of any number of Computer Science type things that today would be called blogs that were from the mid 80's - one person putting out ideas with others responding, but people weren't thinking along those lines. When was the word blog invented?
It must be John Baez's "This Week's Finds" (for fuzzy value of week).
In fact, this is sometimes said to the the first blog of ANY kind!
Beyond the term... what are the necessary defining conditions for something to be a blog?
One can, without much effort, trace the link between the newspaper op-ed (followed by letters to the editor that reference it) and the blogs on (say) scienceblogs.com. The former clearly isn't a blog, the latter clearly is. But where between do you draw the line?
One might also consider (say) the "broadsheets" of Enlightenment-era England precursors to the blog.
"This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics" is quite old, but I'm not sure if I'd call it a blog.
Hmm... Park's physics weekly predated the word blog, but that is what it was.
Speaking of which, I am having trouble accessing that site. Has Park packed it in, or has he been hacked?
OK, let's define a blog as a frequently updated web-page with the most recent updates being on top (i.e., in reverse chronological order) with a possibility for readers to leave comments on each entry.
Hmm... Park's physics weekly predated the word blog, but that is what it was.
I can think of any number of Computer Science type things that today would be called blogs that were from the mid 80's - one person putting out ideas with others responding, but people weren't thinking along those lines. When was the word blog invented?
It must be John Baez's "This Week's Finds" (for fuzzy value of week).
See here for his home page:
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/
and here for this week's "This Week's Finds"
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/week243.html
In fact, this is sometimes said to the the first blog of ANY kind!
Beyond the term... what are the necessary defining conditions for something to be a blog?
One can, without much effort, trace the link between the newspaper op-ed (followed by letters to the editor that reference it) and the blogs on (say) scienceblogs.com. The former clearly isn't a blog, the latter clearly is. But where between do you draw the line?
One might also consider (say) the "broadsheets" of Enlightenment-era England precursors to the blog.
"This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics" is quite old, but I'm not sure if I'd call it a blog.
Speaking of which, I am having trouble accessing that site. Has Park packed it in, or has he been hacked?
Would this count as a blog:
http://www.hiltonpond.org/
OK, let's define a blog as a frequently updated web-page with the most recent updates being on top (i.e., in reverse chronological order) with a possibility for readers to leave comments on each entry.
Re: Bob Parks - seems to be going - here is one way to get to it
https://listserv.umd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=bobparkswhatsnew&D=1&F=P&H=1&O=D…