Today…

The word was created by Jorn Barger to describe what he was doing with his pioneering Robot Wisdom web page.  The word was an abbreviation for the “logging” of interesting “web” sites that Mr Barger featured on his regularly updated journal.
[Weblogs rack up a decade of posts - BBC - 12-17-07]

or a few days from now…

We are approaching a decade since the first blogger — regarded by many to be Jorn Barger — began his business of hunting and gathering links to items that tickled his fancy, to which he appended some of his own commentary. On Dec. 23, 1997, on his site, Robot Wisdom, Mr. Barger wrote: “I decided to start my own webpage logging the best stuff I find as I surf, on a daily basis,” and the Oxford English Dictionary regards this as the primordial root of the word “weblog.”
[Happy Blogiversary - Wall Street Journal - 07-14-07]

or back in April.

Created by the US web guru Dave Winer, Scripting News is sometimes described as the first modern blog, though the term “weblog” was not used in the early days. Flickering into life on April 1 1997, Scripting News is still going strong and is credited with helping popularise RSS and podcasting, too.
[Blogs turn 10 - Gaurdian - 04-07-07]