In May 1999, Peter Merholz posted a note on Peterme.com. It read a little something like this. "I've decided to pronounce the word 'weblog' as wee'-blog or blog for short." Merholz thought it was such ...

Another example of generative AI writing tools hitting the mainstream. The new plug-in can also edit the tone of text, letting users choose between styles like ‘provocative’ and ‘formal.’ Another ...

Automattic, the owner of WordPress.com, has launched a new AI tool designed to help bloggers write more clearly and succinctly. The tool joins a swathe of writing assistants launched lately by the ...

Microsoft Watch reports that the software giant is preparing a host of new blog-related tools. The first is MSN Spaces, a blogging system to compete with Blogger, TypePad, and others. Apparently this ...

The weblog has now reached the point in the cultural life cycle where the word is on everybody’s lips, even if most people aren’t sure what it is. Perhaps the best way to illuminate the phenomenon is ...

Even if you have never heard of Toni Schneider, odds are he’s helped to enrich the way you use a Yahoo e-mail account or read your favorite blog. As CEO of a startup called Oddpost from 2002 to 2004, ...

CEO of Idea Grove, a unified PR and marketing agency, and author of the upcoming book “Trust Signals: Brand Building in a Post-Truth World.” If you are new to marketing your business, you may think ...

A new desktop application from Microsoft, now in beta, lets bloggers see the look of a blog posting before uploading it online. The program, called Windows Live Writer, doesn’t require HTML ...

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School is the new keeper of the specification for a popular Web log tool. The Berkman Center took over ownership of the Really Simple ...

“It was super easy actually,” he says, “which was the scary part.” At the start of the week, Liam Porr had only heard of GPT-3. By the end, the college student had used the AI model to produce an ...