Blogs, part 1

"As I promised to publish the article on the Blogs and Bloggings from Al-Hayat newspaper, you can find the Arabic version of this part 1 here, other parts will follow soon.

The phenomenon of blogs has grown amazingly since the term first came into use, - first as “weblog” in around 1997, and then shortened to “blog” in 1999. It is said that at the beginning of 1999 there were only around 20 blogs; now there are several million."
Baghdad Dweller