"Blog" vs the English language
I've never been a fan of the word "blog" - I believe it sounds like something one calls a plumber to deal with. Even worse is "blog" as a verb. "I blogged it yesterday". Did you really? Was it expensive to get cleaned up?
Here are some alternatives that I came up with:
- Write. It's been a pretty effective word for hundreds of years, over the course of many, many new and varied technologies.
- Affirm
- Announce
- Attest
- Aver
- Chronicle
- Comment
- Communicate
- Divulge
- Document
- Express
- Inform
- Make known
- Narrate
- Note
- Notify
- Outline
- Pass along
- Proclaim
- Pronounce
- Publish
- Record
- Recount
- Relate
- Report
- Reveal
- Speak of
- State
- Wrote up
- Report
- Recount
I'm sure I'm missing some good ones...
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You've missed the one you use yourself: journal.
Kurt
about 1 hour later:
You were probably looking for verbs, so never mind.
Kurt
about 1 hour later:
I've never quite worked out why the world needed a new word to describe online journals, especially one as ugly as "blog".
about 2 hours later:
"Blog" is used all over the place in the mainstream media these days. I can't stand it. Especially when they use it wrongly (which, surprisingly, is possible).
How about "log" and "journal"? I logged it. I journaled it.
1 day later:
i think it fits the bill, it comes from the two words "web" and "log". as in keeping a log on the web. they just dropped the "We_".
its here yes its queer, deal with it.