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Declan and Anne document their nominees and then their readership weighs in. My jaw dropped because one reader went to great length to nominate me. I had a reader of mine from Germany once make a similar claim about five years ago and must admit that I have privately felt the claim had some validity.

Thing is, it's quite a grandiose assertion. AND I remember all those years ago when the most frequent question I was asked about my work here on the World Wide Web (WWW) was: "What is it you are doing? What's the point of this?"

I could not provide an answer back then (mid-1990s) but I knew what I was doing was absolutely fabulous for this medium. So I didn't stop.

The person who nominated me as Father of the Blog at CNet did not get his facts entirely correct. During the late 1990s, I posted daily, the true model for future Blogs; in the mid-1990s I posted weekly, and only went to a bi-weekly schedule as we entered this new century. That's a minor quibble, but I feel I need to set the record straight.

Should you like to read the commentary (considering my corrections to the record of my production) you can find it here.

Based on other posts in the ensuing discussion, I suspect I know who the person who nominated me might be, appreciate the props but personally believe no one knows who has inspired this phenomenon. My personal belief is that the medium lends itself to this form of communication and it was a natural evolution that more people would begin writing in this manner.

IF I was the first, I'm humbled and honored and vindicated in what I was doing over a decade ago. (Second quibble, I wrote this way from the start.) But I think there was a virus out there, a way of thinking the medium encouraged and some of us just "got it" sooner than others and never looked back.

Frankly, it became more important for me - over time - to promote new voices from places like Africa and Eastern Europe, Taiwan and Thailand than worry about this new form of communicating which was my experiment. Along the way, I noticed that other people were starting to catch u p. Then, one day, someone telephoned me and said, "Man! You had the idea all along." By that time I was focused on winning literary prizes for the writers I'd nurtured.

"Idea? What idea was that?"

I personally find the notion that Blogs are only ten years old, as the CNet article asserts, rather questionable. As you'll read, if you bother to check the commentary and those who dispute who the first Blogger was, so do many others.

But it was an amusing exercise to observe and a bit of a shock that I should be included in the controversy.

And now another evolution is not-so-quietly taking place, as the first Internet generation begins to come of age. I have once again applied to the Knight Foundation to establish a New Jack Newsroom here in Texas that speaks to the new environment where SMS is as important as a Web site and anyone with an iPhone can carry the entire network with him or her. Perhaps the judges of the proposals will consider the next mountaintop I'm looking over this time.

Wish me luck.

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