The Trouble With "Blog"
The Trouble With "Blog"
(OP)
I've been seeing the word "blog" the last few weeks, so I finally did a search because I didn't know what it means (It is short for "web log", your online diary). I don't particularly like the term, for a couple of reasons. First, it is yet another indicator of American laziness (is it that hard just to say "web log?") But more importantly, I HAD TO DO A SEARCH TO FIGURE OUT WHAT IT MEANS!!! Shouldn't a new buzzword kind of be self explanatory?
P.S., who wants to keep an online diary anyway?
P.S., who wants to keep an online diary anyway?
DaveAtkins





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I will save my comments on what blogging says about American, and actually world culture, for a more appropriate forum...
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It was not laziness behind this coinage, but closer to a marketing twist of a word. The word 'weblog' was transformed, with the addition of a space, into the phrase 'we blog'.
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web log : we blog :: co-worker : cow-orker
Now I get it. I couldn't understand how a word could get shortened to a pices that isn't part of natural syllabification.
The things one learns...
Hg
p.s. Why should any buzzword be self-explanatory?
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Often buzzwords are not at all self-explanatory, in fact if you are not part of the buzz then you would have no knowledge of the new meaning.
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I had a ham and cheese sandwich, a juice box, a small bag of Fritos, a small can of mixed fruit, AND a Little Debbie for lunch.
Am I blogging or what?
DaveAtkins
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"pices" above should be "piece". Wow, whatta mangling.
Hg
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DaveAtkins:
I see you have almost 20 years expierience. I'm sure right about 1975 the younger generation was using words like "cool", "far-out", "awesome", and the like for the first time in many contexts.
My generation's use of the words "Radical" and "Tubular!" and "Knarly!" don't make much sense now! Man, were we idiots!
You think maybe the older, more established, and better educated folks looked at those trend and scoffed at the lack of sense those words made?
I don't think Buzzwords have ever made much sense, esp. words nowdays like "the bomb" and "dope" and "frashizzle". Kids are stupid, and they like the sound of it!
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I'm not much good at math, apparently.
2005 - 20 = 1985, not 1975.
Peachy keen.
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Radical, knarly (or gnarly), cool, awesome = slang
Synergy, scaleable, enterprise, solutions, and just about anything in a software company's marketing literature = buzzword.
Blog could probably fall into either category. Buzzword when used as a noun, slang when used as a verb?
For more buzzword entertainment, see www.buzzwhack.com
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I think they include forums such as this in their definition of blogging: basically the umlimited opportunity to have your say whether about your breakfast or some anorak thing.
The H2G2 site provides this facility also.
Sure, some sites excercise more editorial/liability control than others but basically, most are not "peer reviewed" so who knows whether what you say is fact or fantasy?
However the said "gurus" do not say much about the credibility you have on blog sites.
JMW
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We have been fighting "identity theft" for a few years now, and now everyone wants to "blog" their personal life!
I'll stick with this forum, blogs are not for me.
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