Blog blog blog... nothing new. Blogging in 1847 W. McDaniel shares the story of Henry Clarke Wright's daily journals, which reads much like today's blogs. Blogging in the Early Republic He goes through a concise history of blogging, then points to journals like Wrights as early examples of the same impulse, the need "to write down what I see and hear and feel daily," to "let off" rants, and so on. In a world where newspapers were rising to cover stories faster than readers could absorb it all, wright sought to "journalize" (Wright's word) these sources into a brief reflection.
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