Antedatings of "live blog" (noun and verb)

[Hugo]

These terms were added to the OED in the June 2013 update, but both can be antedated in/via Usenet.

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"live blog", n. (OED: 25 March 2003)

About the same blog as the OED quotation, but a few days earlier.

21 March 2003 - fido7.russian.z1 (Usenet newsgroup) - Konstantin Surkov:

Title of post:

[Begin extract]
live blog from the guy in baghdad
[End extract]

http://groups.google.com/g/86d7ff09/t/8c1fdd712c69c05d/d/b9a582a1176620b3

You can see an archive of the blog here, during the Iraq invasion on 20th March 2003, but it doesn't use the term itself.

http://wayback.archive.org/web/20030401232151/http://dear_raed.blogspot.com/2003_03_01_dear_raed_archive.html

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"live-blog", v. (OED: 2 Sept 2004)

22 April 2004 - BuzzMachine (blog) - Jeff Jarvis - "Liveblogging" (title):

[Begin extract]
Liveblogging
: I’m accustomed to live-blogging conferences filled with bloggers who are doing the same.
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And it occurs to me that live-blogging is a new kind of reporting. There’s no chance for analysis or even organization, but there is a chance for editing: You type what is of interest as it happens. If you want a completely masticated and digested view of an event, a news story is far better. If you want a complete and unedited view, go to CSpan. But for a quick hit of what’s notable (which is what blogs are best at anyway), liveblogging has its advantages.
[End extract]

http://buzzmachine.com/2004/04/22/liveblogging-im-accustomed-to/

To confirm the date, it was also posted to Usenet the next day:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/rec.sport.skating.ice.figure/RBJudYCvpi0

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Hugo

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