rebecca's pocket about / archive / syndicate .: articles --> weblogs: a history and perspective weblogs: a history and perspective 7 september 2000 In 1998 there were just a handful of sites of the type that are now identified as weblogs (so named by Jorn Barger in December 1997). Jesse James Garrett, editor of Infosift, began compiling a list of "other sites like his" as he found them in his trav