Can we call it "Writing" instead of Blogging?

[Armstead]

Watching the blogvention on CSPAN is very inspiring.

But it also keeps striking a nerve that bugs me. I know it's petty and trivial, but what's the point of being alive if you can't be petty anmd trivial sometimes?

The term "blogging" really bugs me. "I blogged about this last night." or "I was blogging during the convention."

I wish that verb could be tossed into the dumpster, and replaced with the moch more accurate and straightforward word "Writing."

Tht's what it is. It might be pixels on a screen travelling through wires, but it's still writing.

Aside from the fact that "blogging" is such a goofy-sounding word, it makes it seem much more esoteric than it really is.

Actually I hgate the word "blog" in general. I wish it were called by its original term "weblog." Blogging is both too cutesy and too esoteric to the average person. It adds to the notion that the "blogosphere" is a different world than the one real people occupy -- and that the Internet is divorced from the reality of real life, ratyher than just being a new form of communication and organization.

Just had to blogc that off my chest.

(P.S. I know I committed the same thing I'm complaining about by using the word "blogvention." Oh well.:) )

[Journeyman]

1. You have a bloggo in the 2nd to last sentence. . .

"blogc"

[Armstead]

5. A blogical mistake

[sweetheart]

2. Yes, it somehow demeans internet authors

My journal is packed with poetry, but i'm not a poet, because i'm a blogger.

The word is just too onomatopoeia ... with bugger, an booger, and logger, and fogger,
none of which are exciting particularly, so another neo-frame to weaken a voice.

[Cyrano]

3. I agree. The solution is to give the word blog a different meaning.

For example:

Tell someone to shove it up their blog.

Announce that you've got to go take a blog.

Leer in a bar and tell your pals, "I'd like to blog her."

You get the idea. The possibilities are endless. But the big plus is that the term will no longer apply to writing.

[Armstead]

4. I keep thinking of peat bogs

[BlooInBloo]

6. Sure. If you want to convey LESS information, and deal with...

... more specific questions later....

[Armstead]

7. Okay...Writing online then.

[porphyrian]

8. Please do. - n/t

[SPKrazy]

9. Blog Is A Shortened Version Of Web Log

so blog is appropriate to describe what it is.

it is writing on a web log, or blog

[WinkyDink]

10. As I read it, the point is to identify said writing's LOCATION.

If one says, "I wrote a poem today", the listener might respond, "May I read it?" "I posted it on my blog." "Why didn't you say that in the first place?!"

[kentuck]

11. I've never been very fond of the phrase either...

It sounds so....casual...so trivial...so unthreatening. Who could ever take a "blogger" seriously? Is that someone who snores? Is that someones who logs in the Northwest? Is that someone who got wet in a thunderstorm? :)

[AlCzervik]

12. not crazy about "Blogosphere" either. just sayin.