you're damned fucking right

[rone]

"Blog" and "moblog" are not transparent words. "Televisor" was not as good a term as "television" or "television set", and so it went away. I expect the same to happen to "moblog", if not "blog", in ten years. Because they're geek words. They're codemonkey words. (I can hear Cory Doctorow yelling, "l337, damnit!") They are crap, artificial, ugly kludges of words.

        - Warren Ellis

Comments

[zadcat.livejournal.com]

What's wrong with "journal" or "diary"? Is the journal somehow special because it's online?

YES! Yes, it is. Because a blog isn't just writing, it's also links to other things and commentary on them. That's a function specific to the internet, and it's not the same thing as the teenage girl writing in her little blank book.

The Agonist, who worked about 20 hrs a day during the Iraq war,
gathering links from worldwide sources on events as they unfolded,
was "keeping a diary"? I don't think so. He was blogging. No other word for it.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I don't think that either the interaction or the ability to add links warrant a new word; you can take the interaction away, and the links are just a feature of the medium.

The Agonist kept a public journal. Just like i am. People can refer to the activity with a fancy new name... but the fact remains that the fancy new name sucks and is superfluous.