From WikiPedia:

The term blog is a blend of the terms web and log, leading to web log, weblog, and finally blog. Authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called blogging. Individual articles on a blog are called "blog posts," "posts" or "entries". A person who posts these entries is called a blogger.

Hmm. Blog. Blog blog. Blog blog blog blog, blog. WTF, over? The term blog rubs me the wrong way just like "podcast" and is a perfect example of how the media and masses can butcher language in the blink of an eye. Why is it when technology is applied to something that already exists, namely a journal or diary, does it have to have some new name that makes it sound stupid? Why can't they just be "online journals" or such? Blog sounds like something you do during sex: Hey baby, how 'bout a blog job... And who wants to be called a "blogger" anyway? Sounds like booger to me.

Then there is the term log, which is traditionally A record of a ship's speed, its progress, and any shipboard events of navigational importance, and technically A record, as of the performance of a machine or the progress of an undertaking. The key here being the entries are brief and pertain to a single event, machine, device, activity, etc.. A blog is hardly ever used this way, so why in the name of The Master Control Program do we use the word log, improperly and badly?? How about the North Americans use their borrowed English language properly, just for once?? A Blog is at most, a personal journal presented with HTML as a web page.

So, this is my anti-blog page, my "[Personal] [Online | Web] Journal" or: PJ, POJ, PWJ, or just J for short. It is similar to a blog, but has several differences. First, my pages are not on some huge blog website owned by a corporation that is constantly scoured by bots of other major marketing corporations for reasons of trying to cram more SPAM down your throat. Second, there is no "other blogs like this one", or list of "my blog friends", etc.. Third, you can't leave comments (yet.) If you do want to comment, you have to email me, and tell me a little about yourself as well. Why? Because even more than the term blog, I hate SPAM, and that's what you will get, time and time again if people can post comments to your journal entries. Last, I'm supposed to be a technically savvy person, and technically savvy people don't blog, they have websites where they make journal entries. :-)

So there you go, my totally anti-blog views and general negative feelings towards the whole blog movement. I don't have much else to say about it right now, so I'll stop for the time being. However, I may be back on this topic sooner than later, we'll see.

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