Derek Lyons, I don’t think there is any need for you to be abusive. You are mostly correct that it is an ‘interactive timeline of some space and astronomy blogs that I like’. I couldn’t possibly claim to be aware of every astronomy-related blog in existence. On the original post I had said that it included the blogs on my links page and a few others I had found. I don’t think it is fair to add the ‘mostly popular’ though. Some of the blogs may very well be popular now (e.g. this one, Star Stryder, Slacker Astronomy etc) but were only a few posts old when I originally found them and added them to my links page, blog roll or specifically mentioned them in a post. The list wasn’t compiled based on popularity. There are many blogs on there that don’t have the super-stardom of Phil’s blog.

anyway, if this one gets through…

this is less about “who was first” as it is about someone trying to trace back the earliest blogs about astronomy. it’s not about definitions, per se… although several of us have been writing web pages since the early 90s — I started my web page in 1992, with updates from HST observations, space news, etc. before going to blogging format as soon as it became feasible to do so.

Looks to me like Stuart’s work is a “work in progress” and not a definitive listing of blogs.

In any case my Cosmos 4 U – now in the ‘official blog format’ – might qualify as the youngest astronomy blog. It addresses the active astronomy enthusiast who want’s to observe and/or see other observers’ achievements ASAP or wants to fiddle around on the computer – I was looking in vain for a blog or news ticker with exactly that approach and so I had to launch one myself …

Daniel Fischer
Germany

http://www.sjgames.com/ill/past.columns.html

This is really an ‘interactive timeline of some space and astronomy blogs that I like and that are more-or-less popular”.

Before year 1, the app switches to “1BC” (not BCE, BTW). And no, there was no year 0, so take that you “year-2000-was-the-millenium” people…