blogging history

While the Sydney Morning Herald counted 10 years of blogging yesterday (click here for the story), the real score -- according to New York Magazine -- is 13.

The magazine's timeline of the history of blogging names Justin Hall's links.net as the first blog ever published. The year: 1994.

But ironically, Hall -- the man hailed by the New York Times Magazine as "the founding father of personal blogging" -- said goodbye to blogging in 2005. (Read the whole tearful story here.)

Today, Technorati counts 71 million blogs. For all the junk that is actually out there, there are good blogs, those that are useful and worth reading.

Blogs. Hard to imagine life without 'em.