I'm not much of a blogger. But I appreciate the fact that blogs allow people to keep a journal or column they can access and update from anywhere in the world (well, almost anywhere - somehow I doubt you'll see people in the Amazon sitting on a tree log and blogging with their Macbook). What I don't appreciate about the whole phenomenon (and this includes gaming, forums and live chat) are the associated catchphrases. Like leetspeek, blogosphere, moblogging (blogging via mobile phone), splog (spam blogging), blargon (blogging slang) and so forth.
These newly coined words are slowly insinuating themselves into our language, culture - and our dictionaries! Check out Merriam-Webster's 2007 word of the year.
It's enough to make me need a blogiday...that is, a holiday from blogging.
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