The Blogosphere Blossoms in 2003 As RSS Readers Catch On

The release of NetNewsWire 1.0 in February 2003 , one of the first popular RSS Readers. So far in my history of blogging and RSS, we've seen how weblogs emerged in 1999 as a new form of personal journal, began to link to each other in 2000 via blogrolls, turned serious in 2001 with "warblogs," and then became an interconnected ecosystem called the blogosphere in 2002 . In 2003, blogging continued…