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Tom Clifton has this to say about weblogs:

A standard definition of a weblog is a series of posts in “reverse chronologic order”. I can’t give you a reference here because the standard online reference sites don’t have a definition for “weblog”

But, as a geologist, I understand “reverse chronologic order”. Reverse chronologic order is youngest on top and older as you go down. This is a stratigraphic order. Younger deposits bury older deposits, so you get progressively older as you dig down. Weblogs provide a stratigraphic view the world today.

It would be nice if the weblog folks acknowledge those who have gone before them. The Earth has been recording events in reverse chronologic order for over 3.8 billion years. The oldest weblog is the Earth.

Beautiful!  I had never conceived of the blogosphere from such a perspective.  Yes, if we trace the origin of blogs back far enough (or anything else for that matter), we arrive at the same root from which existence springs forth.  Interestingly, they say the core of the earth is glowing hot with energy and the further out from the core one goes, the energy becomes cool and less active, resulting in solid matter (artifacts).  Might the core of weblogs be mind itself: dynamic, active, fluid, full of energy with the power to create?

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