NOTE : 10.16.07 Winners of the drawing are Lisa, Mari Mann, and DJ. I couldn’t draw just one winner. Congratulations!
Frequent blog commenter Pete told me that the world needs a new word for ‘blog post.’ I agree. “Blog” sounds like something my cat throw up after rolling in it. It’s not worthy. To make matters worse, blog is the whole content of a website, and we have to go to two words, “blog post,” to identify a single thing.
How efficient is that? So here’s the challenge. We need a good, useful word for a single blog post. It has to make sense, maybe even have a good explanation. (I’m always up for a good explanation.) I’ll have a drawing for a winner. If you leave a post and want to be in the drawing for a set of One Sentence Journaling Prompt Cards, let me know.
Rules:
1. Give the word and definition or story to go with it.
You can also. . .
2. Vote for another word
3. Tell me if you want to be in the drawing.
Here’s an example:
E-scroll. It ties together the old notion of words written on a scroll with the new idea of scrolling to read an entire post.
OK, your turn.
–Quinn McDonald is a writer and creativity coach. See her work at QuinnCreative.com. (c) 2007 All rights reserved. Image: en.wikipedia.org
include me too — love the idea of replacing “blog”, and many clever ideas already submitted, especially “bost” and “webry” and all of Pete’s submissions.
how about a “mull”?
it’s inspired by one of my favorite sites http://www.mullings.com by Rich Galen (a Republican political operative in Alexandria, VA)
–baa
Well… blop!… of course!… just a tiny blop of a blog… plopped down splat in the middle of a plodding bit of blogging.
Yes, Quinn, please enter me in the drawing… for whatever my little blop of an entry may be worth. :`)
How about bost (pronounced boast), blog + post = bost
It’s a kind of logical progression from web + log = blog
And in a sneaky way it does sort of describe what folks who post blogs do, that is, boast their opinions or ideas.
This is fun. Love all the ideas!
I’m thinking “e-ply”.
–Good one! Short and made for a reply.
–Q
I don’t like the word blog, either. It is too close to blob, which is, I suppose what is on a lot of them, but I would prefer something closer to the word “webiary” since almost all blogs are more like web-diaries than actual logs of ships or aircraft or trucks.
Webry would be shorter, pronounced web-ree, and a webry could then be followed by the primary subject of the diary: knitting could be webryknit, art could be webryart, humor could be webryhaha, and philosophical blogs could then be webrydeep (web-ree-deep).
Enter me in the contest! I don’t even have a blog. Not enough hours in a day to do things and then write all about it online.
Stephen Fry (yes, that Stephen Fry) suggests “blessay” for “blog essay”. At least for long pxts.
http://www.stephenfry.com/blog/
Please put my name in the drawing.
I like Pete’s “tikle”
Here are a couple more for fun:
memord (memory record)
chronobit (a bit of time) to go in your chronocord (chronological record)
memo-e (an e-memo, a memory). You could direct someone to check out your memo-e.
My drawing entry:
Quill~ a reference to when people used to write using quill pens. Then one can say “I have a new quill on my blog” or when one posts something, one can say “I quillped it”.
I think it should be something short and pithy. Maybe a (purposeful?) typo.
A postig (from “posting”)
a writ (actually a word, thus maybe disqualified)
a tikle (from “article”)
an oplet (from “open letter”)
a pote (from “post” and “text”)
a pxt (likewise)
I vote for “pxt” but dn’t no wy. Too much LOLCats probably. I like it because like “pwned” you don’t really know how to pronounce it.
e-entry.
yes, put me in the drawing!
Maybe we could go back to the classic terms — article or essay (for nonfiction)? They’ve worked for a long time, and probably have a lot of life left in them…
Ang-la: Go for it! Give me something catchy!
Traveller: Yep, ‘blog’ is short for Web log, and sure enough, sounds like both ancient navigators and science fiction words (“Captain’s log, stardate 34.56.7) but a blog is still a part of a whole. And I think a new word is in order.
blog is short for weblog – ie a journal published on the web. Ships’ logs were kept to detail the journeys of ships as they sailed from one port to another.
escroll is good but we need something more catchy. who came up with the word blog anyway?
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