Comments on: Is the Word “Blog” Going to Last?

By: Live Stream

Live Stream — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:23:15 +0000

This is so great. I always find such interesting stuff when I stumble onto this site again and again! .Iâ€™m going to be sharing this. Facebook here we come!

By: lose 40 pounds

lose 40 pounds — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:41:29 +0000

I love blogging it keeps me sane

By: Bock the Robber

Bock the Robber — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:30:00 +0000

I dislike the word. It invites condescension from the MSM and has a nerdy feel to it. If you write a diary, call it a blog, but otherwise just call it a website.

By: SENuke

SENuke — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:22:27 +0000

I thinkg the word Blog is pretty cool A real modern word.

By: Dan Cole

Dan Cole — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:16:54 +0000

I think a lot of technologies are going to blend, so what is a blog might fade out as just a group of subcategories in the great scheme of publishing content and building a community.

By: Nancy Nally

Nancy Nally — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:59:18 +0000

I think to a certain segment of people that the word “blog” does have the connotations that you describe. I’ve done several things now to make it clear that my sites are professional sites.

Second, I try hard not to describe myself as a blogger. I try to use things like “online media” “blog network” “websites” and such. Because blogging has taken on a personal connotation, like an online journal, to a lot of people, and I see myself much more as an essayist or journalist, depending on the site. The content is frequently not personal to me AT ALL.

By: bz

bz — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:44:22 +0000

People still say “xerox” something for photocopying.

Granted they’re in their 50s, but they say it.

Blog will stick, for part of the generation anyway.

By: Amber in Albuquerque

Amber in Albuquerque — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:16:50 +0000

I agree some transformation is required. I recently had to pitch an idea to a client, who also reads my personal blog, saying “for lack of a better word…blog.” I really needed a word that conveyed a URL that contained frequently updated content comprising short, somewhat informal articles with lots of linking. Definitely not amateur or personal, but definitely not static or ‘starched’.

By: OldSailor

OldSailor — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:50:36 +0000

As of now the word blog is not familiar to even most of the computer users.Many times I had to explain what blog means, when I say Iam a blogger. Definitely some transformation is required.

By: Maureen McCabe

Maureen McCabe — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:55:40 +0000

I hate the word “blog.” I’ve named a bunch of my blogs (one went through 4 different incarnations) with the word “blog” in the name but I started to hate the word “blog” in early 2007.

This morning watching the local news one of the anchors kept saying “blog” in the way that makes me hate the word.