The unimaginable dangers that lurk in the blogosphere

As I pen this article, there are over 200 million blogs in the internet today with new ones being created every second. A weblog is defined as a frequently updated personal journal chronicling links at a Web site, intended for public viewing.  Before the 90s the only means of getting news or gossip was from magazines and tabloids, or listening in to gossip by men over a bottle of beer in bars, or over Ajua game under some old fig tree in some backwater markets or from women in salons.

In 1994 Justin Hall while still a student at Swarthmore College is said to have become the first person to create the first blog called Links.net, at that time they weren’t called blogs, and he just referred to it as his personal homepage. Then like the magazines and tabloids, the voice of blogging was limited and singular, read only by those who had access to internet and were able to find them. It is one man called Jorn Barger who was credited with coining the word weblog (A Web Log) in December 1997. It was not until mid 2000s when everyone from small country towns to large multinational companies took to running their own blogs.  From the personal journals, the weblogs took a new direction and covered all sorts of topics from bedroom gossips, to politics of State house.