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Evan Toen ik onderzoek voerde voor mijn artikel 'Weblogs rulen hard', mailde ik ook enkele vragen naar Evan Williams. Evan is de grote baas van Blogger (eigenlijk is hij de enige medewerker, maar soit) en hij zou me dus zeker kunnen vertellen waarvoor een weblog nu eigenlijk staat. De antwoorden lieten wat op zich wachten. Daardoor werden ze niet gebruikt in het artikel. Toch wil ik je ons e-mailinterview niet onthouden. Geniet ervan! In het Engels... Bram: What exactly is a web log? And are there different sorts of logs (i.e. more than one creator, etc)? Evan: There are all sorts of blogs. The commonality is a web page with frequent updated content, usually in short chunks, and displayed chronologically (newest first). Blogs vary from business oriented to very personal. The majority are single-author endeavors and a combination of commentary, links, and other issues of personal relevance -but a number are used for communication within a group (circle of friends, family, etc.) or by a group of people who would like to collaborate to publish about a particular topic. Bram: Maybe an impossible question: How many loggers are there? How many users does Blogger have (is it still growing?)? Since when is web logging so important ('the boom') on the internet? Evan: Blogger has ~170K registered users. No idea how many non-Blogger weblogs there are. I think we have quite a bit more than any other single service, but I don't know what the total would be. And yes, we are still seeing >20K new users per month. Weblogs seemed to be talked about as a distinct form around the beginning of 1999. Certainly many were done before that, but that's when they started to take off. Slowly at first, but with increasing momentum for the last year. Bram: Why are web logs so popular on the internet (or is it only one little group of internet users who surf to such sites)? Evan: I think weblogs are popular (and, it was a mostly "underground" phenomenon but is quickly reaching the mainstream) for several reasons. Two of the most important are: People like to read things with personality. Bored with generic, corporate journalism, the personal, unfiltered commentary of a real person is often compelling. The format is very natural for the web. Most other online publishing formats imitate a print counterpart. Weblogs, with their brevity and frequency are perfectly attuned to what people like to read online. Bram: Are there some projects that have surprised you (an unusual way to use Blogger, special websites,..) and what are your favourite logger websites? Evan: I point to blogs that seem interesting, unique, or well-done for one reason or another in the Blogs of Note feature on the Blogger home page. Thanks. bram, e-mail, 20 mei 2001

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