The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger on 17
December 1997. The short form, "blog," was coined by Peter Merholz,
who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we blog in the sidebar of
his blog Peterme.com in April or May 1999. Shortly thereafter, Evan Williams at
Pyra Labs used "blog" as both a noun and verb ("to blog,"
meaning "to edit one's weblog or to post to one's weblog") and
devised the term "blogger" in connection with Pyra Labs' Blogger
product, leading to the popularization of the terms.
