It's now official. "Based on your online lookups," says Merriam-Webster Online, "the #1 Word of the Year for 2004 was
Blognoun [short for Weblog] (1999) : a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer[."]
My bracketing [properly pointed] suggests I'm still having trouble with this word. Although soon to be in print in Webster's next edition, it makes stylish loggers like me even mourn the trees, since they've done no wrong. Although I have twice deigned to use the term — once in Doonesbury Does the Blog and again in Tradition and the Individual Talent: Aristotle Does the Blog — I feel ashamed using it if only on electronic authority.
Anyway, my thanks for Webster's word that I might soon have a new, papery, offline lookup to make.
First time here and it took me forever to get back to the original blog (I'm new to this blogging). I followed link to link and finally ended up listening to a NPR broadcast about the Pope. Wow. intensely fun surfing!
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