by Jessica Reed
When they launched in October 1999, Blogger described its product as "an automated weblog publishing tool," assuming that users had pre-existing knowledge of weblogs. Six months later, their tagline became "push button publishing" and the description of their tool changed to "Blogger offers you instant communication power by letting you post your thoughts to the web whenever the urge strikes." -Danah Boyd
So what's a 'blog', anyway? Is it a medium? A set of practices? Look no further: this excellent paper by Danah Boyd will help you out. After all, maybe some of you read then everyday and yet don't even realise it: according to a research quoted in her paper, less than 50% of Internet users read blogs and many do not even know when they do.
