BLOG

[mankie]

What the hell is one?

[ratioci nation]

http://tinyurl.com/2wjw8

[mankie]

Thank you...why can't they just call it a journal though?

[nkotb]

Cuz for geeks, it's much cooler to speak in Elvish or Klingon or even web speak.  As if they need to alienate themselves even more...
 
 
 

Originally posted by Bollocks:
  Thank you...why can't they just call it a journal though?

[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by nkotbie:
  Cuz for geeks, it's much cooler to speak in Elvish or Klingon or even web speak.  As if they need to alienate themselves even more...
 

blog is more of a commercial word now, it is a buzz word

[Bags]

Derives from Web log....
 
 Like Smog, from smoke and fog.
 
 I tried to have one for a group of friends just for posting music news and political articles and it's pretty much died; we're just not quite that interactive on a regular computer-y basis.

[mankie]

Originally posted by Bagalicious Tangster:
  Derives from Web log....
 
 Like Smog, from smoke and fog.
 
 I tried to have one for a group of friends just for posting music news and political articles and it's pretty much died; we're just not quite that interactive on a regular computer-y basis.

Oh, then is should be a  ebog, weog or something based on that comparison, with an equal number of letters from the two words being combined.
 
 I was just asking because everyone on Air America is using it waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much, and I had no idea what they were talking about.

[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by Bollocks:
  ebog

an ebog could be handy, not sure how it would work though

[Captain Jack]

isn't a bog some type of swamp or blend of mountain brewed licours?