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Stop using the word "blog" appended to everything. Better yet, stop using the word entirely. But if you must use it, stop using it compounded with everything. Blogshut blogup.

Remember how we all laughed at the retarded monkeys who called everything "e-foo?" You laughed at them, just like I did. So why you wanna go turn into one of them? And you sound like a computer nerd version of Sal from Futurama, who famously remarked, "Theres. The world's drinkings water is safes for another days." Except that he's funny.

And while I'm on the subject, check out this Einstein. He wants to make a "documentary about the fullness of the magnificent human spirit as exhibited in blogs." (Feel free to laugh now, before I even get to the punchline.) His post starts saying how great for mankind discussion web sites are, arguing about what to call his movie about them.

We all know that only goodness and mercy and happy bunnies happen on discussion web sites. Duh. What could be the problem?

Well, someone made him mad, by being a jerk. The short of it is that he reaches the conclusion: "This I would have expected of Hollywood, not independent filmmakers, and certainly not the blogosphere!"

You mean ... the "blogosphere" is just like REAL LIFE? That there isn't a place on Earth where everything is perfect? That if I live in Jonestown, I might end up dead?

Stick that in your blogpipe and blogsmoke it, blogwankers.

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  • reminds me of the game played in Super Troopers to say meow 10 times over the course of a traffic citation. Great stuff.

    jason
    move along. this post is entirely OT.

  • One, um, "discussion" that I've had a few times with the editorial staff at the company where I work is whether the things they call blogs on our web sites should be called blogs.

    Most of the content we have is newspaper content. From the newspaper, there are people who write regularly about the same general topic and those people are called "columnists". For some reason, when a similar person has a similar role but is publishing directly to the web site, they suddenly become "bloggers."

    Except for the

    • I think you're right. All they use the word "blogger" for is "online columnist," which not only is not interesting enough to deserve its own word, but is actually confusing, since that is not normally what "blog" refers to.

      And they are completely wrong when they say those physical constraints define what a columnist is. That's like saying a schoolteacher is defined by having a blackboard, and now that we have whiteboards, we need to call them "whiteboarders." The physical constraints were something they
    • in my opinion, a 'blog without comments is not much of a 'blog. columnists generally do not print responses they get; 'bloggers list all of them (maybe they delete the spammy / abusive / off-topic comments).

      'bloging is a little less restricted than writing a column for a newspaper, but many columns are very casual and 'talky'.
  • Heh. Blog-kooks (blooks?). Is there a KOTM for blogs yet?

  • Blogumentary? Blogoliths???

    Is there any real content on that guy's site other than made up words and an account of a petty fight?

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