Ten years ago in August 1999 Blogger.com was born and Google is celebrating the birthday. As blogger celebrates their birthday, Google also is celebrating the success of blogging in general noting that:

We’re proud that Blogger continues to be a force for free expression worldwide and that it is growing quickly despite its maturity. In the past two years alone, the number of people contributing to a blog has more than doubled, and every second of every day, a new blog is created on Blogger…

- Official Google Blog, “Happy 10th birthday, Blogger”

Indeed blogs have been gaining in popularity as the years go by, don’t be surprised in gthe near future when families commonly have blogs as a part of “everday life”, just like the age old photo album.