[David Bernstein, July 4, 2007 at 7:46pm] Trackbacks
Birthday Wishes:

Happy 231st birthday to the USA, happy 40th to me, and, as of this past Sunday, happy blogversay to one of the oldest (and one of my favorite) legal blogs, Overlawyered.com. To be honest, when Wally Olson announced he was staring the Overlawyered site, well before the word "blog" was invented, I thought posting stuff on the Internet regularly and hoping people would read it was a silly idea!

John (mail):
"I thought posting stuff on the Internet regularly and hoping people would read it was a silly idea!"

It is! We're all crazy.
7.5.2007 8:30am
Crust (mail):
Actually, it looks like Overlawyered (started July 1999) didn't quite manage to predate the word "blog":

The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger on 17 December 1997. The short form, "blog," was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May of 1999. This was quickly adopted as both a noun and verb ("to blog," meaning "to edit one's weblog or to post to one's weblog").
7.5.2007 10:33am
JNS405:
Happy birthday! You don't look 40!
7.5.2007 1:44pm