Legend has it that Peter Merholz coined the word “blog” when he published a side note to his website in the spring of 1999. “I’ve decided to pronounce the word ‘weblog’ as ‘wee-blog.’ Or ‘blog’ for short.” Today the word blog is in the Oxford English Dictionary. ~ From “Who Let the Blogs Out” by […]
I received an unexpected phone call from my husband yesterday morning. He was calling to report that someone had seen me on the local nightly news. No, I wasn’t pulled over for an overdue inspection sticker or for writing poetry while driving. It seems that WDBJ-7 was doing a news report on regional blogs and […]
Do blog readers keep restaurant hours? Have you noticed that weekdays can be slow and that blog traffic tends to pick up over the weekend? On a good day in the blogsphere, it seems that you get your early-riser breakfast crowd, hopefully followed by a few readers who trickle in around lunch time. Then there’s […]
Some of my friends are getting tired of hearing about my blog, or they miss me because I’ve been online more than usual, writing blog entries. I remind them about the long political articles I used to email out. Since I can’t change our current government, even though it’s getting worse everyday, I might as […]
I was doing a search for “writer’s blogs” (as if I don’t have enough to do) and came across a story that caught my attention about how blogging saved novelist Ayelet Waldman’s life. Waldman, in her own words, said in her March 14th column “Living Out Loud Outline,” for Salon: The first inkling my husband […]
This one illustrates the potential of doing your own blog-thing, found at blogcruiser from The Daily Yomiur: It’s a blog called “True Stories: A Diary on My Demonlike Wife” and is written by a Japanese man who started it as a way to deal with the stress of his domineering wife. Written under a pseudonym, […]
Sometimes I wish the word “blog” didn’t sound so much like “blob” and remind me of the 1958 movie (The Blob) staring Steve McQueen where something falls from outer space and gets stuck on his arm and then grows and grows until it covers his body. It’s good for blogs to grow – more readers […]
As a foster care provider for the past 8 years, and a person who has done some basic family genealogy research, I understand the importance of good documentation, and I consider my blog to be another form of it. Some of my friends have concerns about the nature of blogging, such as: Don’t you feel […]
Friends want to know where I’ve been. It’s hard to explain. It’s like I opened a new business with my writing, and my blog is the storefront. As a poet and writer, I’m used to doing what I love without it resulting in any income to speak of. I did have a couple of new […]
I’m a new kid on the blog block and so I appreciate this ingenious way to meet other bloggers. It’s called “The Weekend Meet and Greet” and is hosted by Michele at her “all things Michele” blog site. How it works: Leave a comment on the Meet and Greet entry, such as “hello Michele.” Then […]
I may speak English, but I think in Bloggish – that ongoing internal conversation that when put down on paper amounts to writing. My bloggish comes in blocks of thought, too short to be a commentary or even an essay, but just the right size for a …post. Even my first book, “The Jim and […]
Apparently blogs now have their own version of the Academy Awards called the annual “Bloggies.” Here are a few interesting blog facts that I got from a March 15th BBC report covering that event: * Blogs had a big year last year, with a top US dictionary naming “blog” word of 2004. * Technorati, a […]
