Anyone else out there dislike the word blog?
Why not call it a journal?
Oh yes, it is true right at this very moment, I have nothing better to do so there…
Steve
I think a BLOG is somewhere you will NEVER see ohiotuber, so if you want to avoid me, just go to BLOG! I don’t understand what a BLOG is & don’t care to. I just wanna go fishing!!..C’mon Spring! 
Mike
I think ‘blog’ is the truncated form of ‘web log’.
If you started calling it a web journal, the same people that came up with ‘blog’ would start calling it a ‘bournal’.
Ya know, Steve, even though this seems like a trivial thing, I agree with you. I’m just tired and overloaded with all the buzzwords everywhere. I long ago decided not to keep up, and not to use them. Just gettin old and set in my ways I guess, I like it like that.
…ModocDan…like the ‘Tuber, I just wanna go fishin’
I admit I enjoy the use of this new FAOL feature!
But, like you I don’t subscribe to all the buzz words and in my opinion they do not belong in our dictionary or in formal use.
Maybe LF & JC could rename it from Blog to Journal Entries
Just a thought
What say you??
Steve
The guy still with nothing to do!
Blog sounds like something out of an old Steve McQueen horror movie. “The Blog” I can hear the canned screams right now.:rolleyes:
I think something along the lines of a “Journal” would be cool.
Prithee, wouldst thou have us freeze the Olde English language? Languages evolve, and ours is no exception. Something new, or a description of a new way of looking at something, seems an appropriate place for a new word.
In my opinion, of course.
Sit back and think about how many of the things around you, that you use every day, needed new words to describe them because there was no way to do it using the old ones.
Right now, I am going to go get in my car, drive to the video store, rent a DVD, and veg out on the couch for a while. Maybe microwave some popcorn, even. Get the picture?
Or maybe I can take my horseless carriage, proceed to the establishment which offers moving pictures for rent, rent one, return to my abode, rest upon my Davenport, and ingest some cooked corn kernels…
Tight lines.
Right now, I am going to go get in my car, drive to the video store, rent a DVD, and veg out on the couch for a while. Maybe microwave some popcorn, even. Get the picture?
Then we can read about it tomorrow on your blog!
Saggitarius, why? I just put it on here.
I am wondering, though, how to include the side trip to the Mexican restaurant. Is “enchilada” in the dictionary?
Blog Blog Blog or I may be thinking bla bla bla at any rate one unfortunately is in the dictionary and the other applies here, lol
Those ingested corn kernels of yours reminds me of a blog:D
Steve
…Yeah…an “intestinal” blog! 
I STILL can’t understand the purpose of a blaaa…oops, blog, when we HAVE a forum! Yeah, that’s right, I am NOT a “technological whiz kid”.
Mike
…‘blogage’? It must have been great back in Neanderthal time (you know, Troglodytes) when all a guy needed was one word repeated twice to get everything he needed.
Cheers,
MontanaMoose
Steve,
Don’t you mean “Yadah, Yadah, Yadah” 
Jim
Steve,
I think “Blogs” are out of control;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
It’s Justin’s Fault! Quote;The modern blog evolved from the online diary, where people would keep a running account of their personal lives. Most such writers called themselves diarists, journalists, or journalers. A few called themselves “escribitionists”. The Open Pages webring included members of the online-journal community. Justin Hall, who began eleven years of personal blogging in 1994 while a student at Swarthmore College, is generally recognized as one of the earliest bloggers,[5] as is Jerry Pournelle." End Quote.
Doug
"This all being said, I now unequivocally state that as of 1:16 pm (Pacific) [FONT=Arial]on the 22nd day of September (the autumnanal equinox) in the year 2007 AD (or CE, whatever your preference), there were approximately 995,112 words [/FONT][FONT=Arial]in the English Language, plus or minus a handful. " (http://www.languagemonitor.com/wst_page7.html) :o[/FONT]
“Richard Lederer, a lion among linguistics, tells us that English is the most cheerfully democratic language in the history of mankind. It has 616,500 entries in the Oxford English Dictionary. This compares with a vocabulary of about 185,000 words for German, 130,000 for Russian, and 100,000 for French. Yet the average English speaker possesses a vocabulary of 10,000 to 20,000 words, Lederer observes, but actually uses only a fraction of that, the rest being recognition or recall vocabulary.” 
(http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/journalism/chal.html)
So, Steve, if we assume you have 20 thousand words in your vocabulary, out of the million or so (rounded for ease of math after 11 pm) in the language, you are only using 1/50th (or 2%) of the language. If you put the word “blog” into the other 98% of the language that most of us don’t use, alongside such obviously common terms as “obsequious” and “perspicacious”, then you don’t have to worry about it any more. Easy, no?
Oh, and according to Merriam-Webster online,
blog
Pronunciation:
[FONT=Lucida Sans Unicode]ˈ[/FONT]blo[FONT=Lucida Sans Unicode]̇[/FONT]g, [FONT=Lucida Sans Unicode]ˈ[/FONT]bl?g
Function:
noun
Etymology:
short for [FONT=Arial]Weblog [/FONT]
Date:
1999
: a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer
? blog?ger [FONT=Arial]noun [/FONT]
? blog?ging [FONT=Arial]noun [/FONT]
PS I don’t think “autumnanal” is a real word
Doug,
Yours has been the most enlightening and helpful information.
I certainty was not expecting to gain anything useful from my post
but may have. I would not want to use this blog thing as a personnel account of my life. Boring for one thing!!
I do have some rethinking to do, hopefully not much…
I appreciate you Doug!
Take care…
Steve
PS, DG thanks too!