Silvestre Vélez de Escalante

After reading his journal chronicling the daily events of the Dominguez Escalante expedition, I have decided to bestow the title "Father of Blogging" upon Silvestre Velez de Escalante. The guy had a knack for a good concise blog post. Sure, he predated the internet by a good 200+ years, but if you had given that man a laptop, he would have pwned the world wide web.