Comments On: Continuing the world's first blog . . . by Harold Henderson

Re: Continuing the world's first blog . . .

J. Businger — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:35:02 -0500

I have no idea what you're talking about. The world's first full-service blog is on full display, with daily updates, right here: http://worldsfirstblogger.wordpress.com/
Posted by J. Businger

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George — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 13:21:03 -0600

It might be that Dale Debber was the first blogger. Here is his profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/debber
Posted by George

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Skeptic — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:30:13 -0500

umm, I love City File, but if we go with the wikipedia standards Harold has listed (which are cut so as to not include being on the Web as a qualifier), then any enclyclopedia article qualifies. encyclopedias, btw, deserve some credit for the "hyperlink" concept anyway, as at the end of an article they always provided article titles of related interest. Wikipedia says that blogs combine "text, images, and links." By that standard, the Reader has had one since August 16, 1985, when the ink for "The City File" first hit the back pages of the paper.
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William Sanchis — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 15:54:01 -0500

But I did love "City File," Harold. If this is the only way old Reader fans can get it, we'll take it.
Posted by William Sanchis

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William Sanchis — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 15:45:55 -0500

Seems like you guys saw my posting on Eric Zorn's blog re Richard Roeper. http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2006/06/_shameless_tabl.html Here it is for those too lazy to click: Personally I always hated Roeper's item columns -- they seemed like he didn't have strong enough material to make a whole colum, so he'd string together a little bit of this & a little bit of that. Harold Henderson's "City File" in the Chicago Reader was the most sophisticated item column in town, and it resembled the sensibility of the best bloggers by lifting material from various sources -- in other words, it wasn't just about him. Of course, "City File" ran back when the Reader was sophisticated . . . and good. That was pre-9/11, before the world changed. Gee, I'm only 34, and already I sound like an old goat. Posted by: william sanchis | Jun 14, 2006 1:31:56 PM
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literalisp — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:14:10 -0500

oh snap!
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jocelyn — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 09:38:03 -0500

well, and the fact that by definition a blog is a WEBlog, it would seem the people fighting for the title of "world's first blogger" would have to be people who have actually turned their thoughts/links into something that is on the internet.
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Kyle Holtan — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 13:34:09 -0500

And not to be a Philistine, but Reader's Digest started publication in 1922, eleven years before Benjamin came to Paris.
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Whet Moser — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:02:47 -0500

Not to rain on anyone's parade, but my pick for the world's first blogger is Walter Benjamin. Although, given that the Arcades Project never made it out of beta, perhaps HH can still claim the title.

Nonetheless: what does exist of the Arcades Project is some great high-class bathroom reading

Posted by Whet Moser

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lunatic fringe — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 17:37:30 -0500

I see the ever truculent and tendentious Henderson has been given free reign to assualt your readers with with twice-daily left wing fulminations. Real men don't blog. Teenage girls do. Woosies blog. Real mean watch Fox News.
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