War Blog

Reynolds wonders who coined the phrase "WarBlog."

The earlier reference I'm aware of came from Matt Welch, way back in September (9/18 in his blog, although I think he referred to his blog as a warblog when he started it on 9/16). Welch just sort of quietly started using the phrase and hasn't thumped his chest much about it since then, unusual modesty compared to some in blog land. Another reason Welch rocks.

Looking back, I see that I first found Matt Welch's warblog (and asked "Are we all warbloggers now?") back on 11 October. So the term made it into the blog consciousness pretty quickly.

[Posted at 19:30 CST on 06/08/02] [Link]