Via Der Schockwellenreiter, this story from Austrian public broadcasting asks whether the Viennese journalist and author Karl Kraus might have been the first blogger. The Schockwellenreiter holds that this is a stupid suggestion; I'm not sure. As the ORF story points out, Kraus's journal Die Fackel had the mission of opposing and analysing the flaws of the new mass media of his day. Kraus savaged the new mass press, the ravings of proto-fascist rabblerousers like Karl Lueger and Georg von Schoenerer, and the corruption of Austro-Hungarian politics.
But, as far as I am aware, he never ran pictures of his cat.
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