blogging and surfing

This unfinished page contains text from either the 2003 or 2005 print version of Encyclopedia of Surfing. An updated version, with more photos, is coming soon.

While blogs in general have had a strong presence on the internet since the early 2000s, surfers didn't take to the blogosphere with any real gusto until a few years later. As Surfer magazine's online editor Zach Weisberg put it in 2010, "one branch of the Internet has now swung low enough for even the shortest among us [surfers] to grasp: the blog." From there, however, the idea caught on fast. B...