Blogging Invented by Doogie Howser?

I smile just when I think about blogging and Doogie Howser. If you’re not familiar with the television show “Doogie Howser M.D.,” you’re probably younger than 30. Neil Patrick Harris, the actor who became famous again in the TV show “How I Met Your Mother” and several movies, played a child genius who graduated from Princeton at the age of ten and became a doctor when he was 14 years old.

At the end of every episode Doogie would give an insightful summary of his day, starting with the date, and save it to his computer. Now granted, he didn’t post his daily diaries online, but I don’t think Al Gore had invented the Internet yet. Heck, that Doogie was so high tech he had a cellular phone the size of a suitcase, so I’m sure if Radio Shack had sold a 14.4 kbs modem he would of had one.

That’s really how blogging began; individuals used a normal HTML website to create personal online diaries or a log of their life. Blog is short for weblog, or as one of my oldest blogs explains it: ” . . . an interactive online journal, with the most recent entry on top.” That pretty much sums it up I guess, but always seemed like a funny description so I left it there.

Blogging has gone from personal online diaries to big-time money makers for bloggers like ProBlogger, Chris Pirillo and Perez Hilton. Not to mention the many businesses who are now corporate blogging and increasing their search engine ranking with the use of blogs.

What’s left is the many companies who are missing the blog boat . . . just watching their Internet ranking and presence sail away into the sunset.