Links for today: past, present, future

The real history of blogging (or not)

• This article just confuses me. I'm not sure whether it's supposed to be funny or genuine, a bit of both, or neither. But whatever the purpose of this strange beast is, I don't go along with the central idea - that 'blogging' really began in the 16th Century - because if you think about the etymology of the word 'blogging' or 'web-logging' then really the World Wide Web needs to have been invented first.

Are you a blogging journalist?

• University of Birmingham academic, Paul Bradshaw, wants to know how this has changed your working life so he's running a survey here.

Journalism

• And further to the 'what is journalism' post, Washington Post journalist, John Kelly, says we're making it up as we go along...like basketball.