in researching the history of blogs, I found that some references pointed to the 18th century as the beginning of the practice. There were no computers, the Internet ran on horseback, and electricity was little more than an object of parlor tricks. yet something very similar to blogging was happening. A new class of literate citizens was rising in parts of Europe and in the American colonies. Coupled with the fact that paper was becoming much chheaper to produce and more plentiful and printing presses and to publish them to wide audiences as pamphlets. perhaps the most famous of the revolutionary pamphleteers (from a U.S. perspective) was Thomas Paine, whose publication of Common Sense had an enormous influence over my country's move toward independence.


Classroom Blogging: A Teacher's Guide to Blogs, Wikis, and Other Tools that are Shaping a New Information Landscape