The term “weblog” was coined by Jorn Barger on 17 December 1997. The short form, “blog,” was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May 1999. It’s not until five years later that Merriam-Webster declares the word their word of the year.

For years, millions of us have been blogging our hearts and minds out across the globe which has transformed the speed, accessibility & exchange of information and opinions since it began in 1997. The nature of blogging has also evolved from individually-driven blogs to Multi-author blogs and finally to microblogging sites like Twitter, etc. In whatever form, the practice of writing and reading to exchange ideas, must continue to evolve and survive the unintellectual barge of non-worded content, before it engulfs our wor(l)ds.

Dotes are just a refreshing new way to blog in this rapidly evolving technological society. It’s somewhere in between a Tweet and a Blog. Somewhere between a reactive comment and a well structured article. Somewhere between being casual and being obsessed. Your dote is about you loving your thoughts and feelings and letting it out into the world.