Say Everything and Say Nothing

  I commented here before about Scott Rosenberg’s book called “Say Everything:  How Blogging Began.”  I even posted his video from YouTube here:  The First Blogger, with Scott Rosenberg. 
  I attempted to post my YouTube video: Did Jim Howard Invent the Blog?     as a Video Response but he did not allow any video responses. 

  

  I found “Wordyard” which is Scott Rosenberg’s blog.  In a post on the blog he mentions that he used the Internet Wayback Machine for his research.  No wonder he screwed up his book. 
  In his blog post he mentions “blog historian” Rudolf Ammann and that he found links to Dan Gillmore’s “pioneering” EJournal blog beginning in 1999! 
  My God, I get so tired of this crap.  I was doing a blog in 1982!  It was written up in “Link-Up” magazine in 1984. I was blogging before the world wide web was invented in 1995.  
  Did I invent the blog?  If you watch my video I think I do a pretty good job of covering that subject.  I KNOW for a fact that I was doing a blog before ANY of the people that are mentioned as the first to do a blog.  They are all mentioned in the 1995-1999 range.  I was blogging in 1982! 
  Now some guy may have been doing a blog before me.  That is possible and I mention that in my video.  Now some people, very few, that give me some credit will say …something to the effect that …yes you were doing a BBS and that was early blogging and you were one of thousands doing a blog…I do not say that I was blogging because I was doing a BBS in 1982.  (I did Howard’s Notebook from 1982 until the world wide web was invented in 1995 and then I moved it to the www.)  I say I was doing to blog in 1982 because it had all the content of a blog.  I commented daily and gave personal views, news and information.  I had list of information and you could click on some of the information and my BBS would dial out on the other phone line and connect you to that site. 
  I am not out to be listed as the father of blogging or the inventor of blogging.  I am just here saying that blogging was NOT invented in 1999 or in 1995.  I KNOW I was doing it in 1982.