bloggern.
/ˈblɒɡə/, U.S. /ˈblɑɡər/ Computing.
1. The author or creator of a blog; = weblogger n.
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blogger1999
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1999 P. Merholz peterme.com 28 May (blog, Internet Archive Wayback Machine 25 Dec. 1999) Blog coverage continues apace. Scott Rosenberg favorably contrasts bloggers to traditional journalists.
1999 Evening Chron. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 24 Aug. Bloggers had to hand-code their pages each day and upload the files every time they added a new link or comment.
2002 U.S. News & World Rep. 13 May 48/1 By linking to one another's Web sites, the bloggers got more people to cast votes and reversed the numbers.
2. In form Blogger. A software tool used in the production of weblogs.
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1999 New Media Age 11 Nov. 14/1 Web site management specialists Pyra have created an automated weblog publishing tool called Blogger. It's a free toolkit for entering, archiving and catching [read caching] URLs, then using file transfer protocol (FTP) to move the posts to the user's Web site or server.
2000 Whole Earth Winter 54/1 Because it's so damn simple to use, Blogger is responsible for a number of ultra-low-grade weblogs.
2002 Salina (Kansas) Jrnl. 21 Apr. b6/3 The free Blogger software tools allow anyone to set up diaries in a variety of professionally designed templates or set up more complex original blogs.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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