Blogging

Blog

I’ve been reading a lot of blogs lately. It really is addicting. There has been a few times where I thought it would be cool to try out a more blog format for this site. I currently just view this site as a place where I do ‘posts’. I want to try to make it more of a place where I just throw my random thoughts out there too. Hopefully it works. Blog.

I used the word blog a few times now so far and I’d bet it bothered a few of you. People hate the word blog. I don’t know what it is, but people just don’t think blog is a good term for people writing their random thoughts online. I wonder if this the first time a new online technology simply just hated the name it was given. Was there a big outcry when the word ‘email’ came out? Hater: “Oh, no it’s not an email address, it’s just a little thing I give you to be able to send me messages. Email doesn’t define me.” Or what about when ‘browsers’ came out; Hater Software Dude: “This isn’t simply a browser foolish consumer, it’s an explorer!” Oh wait. Whatever. The point is that the word makes sense for what everybody out there is doing. They are blogging. They are bloggers. Even people who think they aren't blogging are blogging. Why can’t that just be the word we go with?