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Blog
Professor David Crystal
In 2001, I wrote a book called,
Language and the Internet
,
and I didn’t mention the word blog. Well, this year, I have
a second edition out. In it goes, that’s how fast the internet
moves.
Those who blog, bloggers, carry out the activity of
blogging, setting up a blog site, with a unique web address
in order to do so. It’s an abbreviation of ‘web log’; a phrase
that was first used in 1997, both as a noun and as a verb,
a web log.
It’s essentially a content management system, a way of
getting content on to a webpage; it’s a genre, a bit like
diary writing, or bulletin posting. I mean, people add their
posts or diary entries, with some regularity, if you’re a
blogger you do it daily at least, often several times a day.
So at one extreme there’s the personal diary, kept by an individual who
wants to tell the whole world about his or her activities, or interests and
opinions and so on. And then at the other extreme, there’s the corporate
blog, maintained by an institution, such as a radio station or a music
store.
Well, there are even more coinages about to come, it seems to me. The
totality of all blog sites in the world is known as the blogosphere. And if
you have a blog and it goes on for too long, be careful, because
somebody might describe you as having blogarrhoea!
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