When I see blog entries like:

Today, I joined the emerging ranks of genuine Windows users. I blogged about the new program …

I literally want to tear out my own hair by the roots and write,

I blogged about my masochistic baldness….

Blog is a noun, fellows. It’s a noun that stems from the original phrase, “Web Log.” When you post something on your blog, you’re blogging, but you haven’t blogged, and you don’t blog. You write. Writing is a distinguished, elegant profession that for years has been well respected as the hobby of the educated man. Why pass up a chance to say, “I wrote about the new program” and elevate yourself from the ranks of the technocrats. Why, every blogger could be an intellectual, if he’d only write–and didn’t blog.

More:

• http://blog-efl.blogspot.com/2004/05/found-at-alt.html
• http://www.webslog.com/iblog/C1058645254/E1362458823/index.html
• http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/blogshop/archives/000281.html
• http://www.digitaldust.org/memetrack/archive/000020.html

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4 Responses to “Blog as a Noun”

1. Jeremy C. Wright says:

   11/1/2004 at 5:35 pm

   Blog. Writing if for someone else. Blogging is for me. I get paid to do both now, and blogging is definitely less stressful

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2. Elliott Back says:

   11/1/2004 at 3:37 pm

   Jeremy makes the point that “to blog” is being used a verb. Although its not quite a noun turned verb, as the noun refers to the surface of action, while the verb refers to using that surface–the difference between “to write” and “paper.” That aside, would you rather blog or write?

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3. Jeremy C. Wright says:

   11/1/2004 at 12:47 pm

   And so is “Google”, “paint”, “skate” …

   An object can also be a verb, when you are using that object

   To Blog

   I blog
   You blog
   We blog
   They blog

   

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4. Jim Bursch says:

   11/1/2004 at 12:45 pm

   Good luck trying elevate the quality of writing found in blogs. These are the same folks that brought us emoticons so they wouldn’t have to write emotion, and compounded the inherent laziness of cliches by creating abbriviations for them: IMHO

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