California diarist Joanna "Stasi" Genzoli is a mommy.

The 28-year-old author of Covet What Was Mine, known to nearly everyone as Stasi, had posted regular updates ever since she and her husband Dan found out she was pregnant last September.

The couple had been trying to conceive for three years, following a devestating miscarriage in 1996. As this pregancy barreled heartily along, Stasi proudly joined the Journal Babies webring.

And at 7:19 p.m. on Thursday, May 25, Daisy Glenn Genzoli was born, weighing exactly 8 pounds and measuring exactly 20 inches long.

Friend and fellow journaler Jolene announced the news on Stasi's notify list mere hours after the much-anticipated event. The news made it to Diary-L a day later.

Stasi is reveling in her motherhood, and is still meticulously documenting the past few incredible days.

The daily countdown included in each entry is no longer needed, the last update simply a note to her new daughter: "Daisy, because of you, every day is a reason to celebrate... Just when we thought we could not feel a single ounce more love in our hearts, you came in and made us see what love really is about."

The Meyhem Project, one of the first generation of online journals, has come to an end.

Bryon Buck, 31, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, had been chronicling his life nearly non-stop since September 1996. But citing basic burnout, as well as his new status as a family man and IT student, Buck ended his journal last week.

Buck said the last four years of writing has taught him a number of important things, from accepting diversity to developing discipline.

"When you stick with a project long enough, you grow from it, it makes you better you learn, you develop, you develop wings, and you fly," he wrote in his final entry. "Sometimes, you crash ... but if you get right back up, your wounds heal, and fly high again."

Buck had frequently reported and reflected on the history and nature of the web journaling genre. Fittingly, in his June 7, 1998 entry, he wrote:

"On a percentage basis, there are not that many journalers who have been writing for longer than I have. I like the idea of being a veteran of a movement that is sweeping the Internet. I'll keep writing just to be one of the old people."

Although the final chapter of his public journal has been written, Buck said will not give up journaling, or the web. To find out what he'll do next, he invites readers to .

Web journals have been around for fewer than six years, but in internet time, that's three or four epochs. The earliest days are already beginning to fade into antiquity, prompting a group of escribitionists to launch an ambitious effort to document the history of the journaling community.

The Online Diary History Project has already entered its first phase with an call for essays and other remembrances from journalers who launched their diary sites between January 1995 and April 1997.

The project is largely following the early history of the Open Pages webring one of the first community hubs and its veteran members. The history of other, similar web communities will also be examined.

The Online Diary History Project is the brainchild of Ontario journaler Cara Leitch-Thompson, 28, and San Francisco journaler Jen Wade, 27. Both first began documenting their lives online in 1996.

"There are stories out there, about the people who pioneered this genre, that are in danger of disappearing," Thompson wrote. "It is our goal to preserve their memories of what online journaling was like in the beginning."

The Online Diary History Project is a collaborative effort, with much of the work coordinated through an open and unmoderated mailing list.

p>For some diarists, writing journal entries is part of their daily routine. And diary addicts clamor constantly for more. For these people, now there is Always.

"Are you an update junkie? Is 'Often' just not often enough?" asks founder Patrick Cleary, 31, a Boston diarist. "'Always' is a 'burb for journalers and readers who believe that on-line journals should be updated every single day."

The new 'burb goes a step beyond the long-running Often webring, which was founded in May 1997 and required members to post an average of 20 entries a month.

Always allows for no more than five missed days a month, and requires three consecutive months of sufficient entries to be eligible to join. "The rules are strict, but if you think you have what it takes, we'll welcome you," Cleary said.

Within a week of its inception, there were already more than a dozen members. They are listed with an introductory paragraph, and the time of day the diarist usually updates.