Comments on: Blogmaker, Blogmaker, Blog Me a Blog

By: Young Urban Amateur

Young Urban Amateur — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:43:51 +0000

Actually I think I can figure it out–compare to “I’m going for a run”–”run” is the present indicative of “to run”. “Blog” is the present indicative of “to blog”. So, if you can have “a run” then you can also have “a blog”. It’s admittedly an inconvenient fact, however, that the collection of these blogs is itself called a “blog” (and that *that* “blog” came first, of course).

Probably the counterargument to this would be to note that “to go for a run” is maybe just a kind of compound verb. But we don’t have to get into that; just say that it’s confusing to call both blogs and blog posts “blogs”, that the former came first, and be done with it.

(The problem with *that* is that it leaves us w/ no catchy word for “blog post” or “blog entry”, which sounds kind of nerdy if you have to say it over and over again. And of course, none of us are nerds here.)

By: Molly

Molly — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:33:20 +0000

It’s totally increasing. I’m hearing it from people who might be described as the “older generation.” The people I know personally who call blog posts “blogs” are generally computer savvy, use the internet, read blogs, and sometimes even blog themselves, but the vocabulary for all of it seems to escape them.

By: this blog is overrated

this blog is overrated — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:46:46 +0000

But then blogs are recursively defined! A blog is a collection of blogs is a…

By: golightly

golightly — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:10:11 +0000

Verbs beget nouns. “I’m blogging this” leads to the product being called “blogs” and not posts. “I’m posting this” just doesn’t cut it.

By: this blog is overrated

this blog is overrated — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:55:36 +0000

And they’re probably the same people who make fun of “internets”!

By: srah

srah — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:49:47 +0000

That drives me insane. Especially when bloggers do it themselves.