Comments on: This is not a ‘blog’ (it’s just part of one)

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:24:33 +0000

I think, as one of the commenters on my post pointed out, that the worst aspect of this is that there really is no good replacement word for “blog” in its traditional sense. “Blog site” is just horrible.

OK, you’ve convinced me. I’ll return to my no-tolerance stance.

By: Martin Stabe

Martin Stabe — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:24:56 +0000

I don’t have a problem with “blogged” as the past tense of “to blog”.

Ultimately, that derives from “logged”, which is a perfectly legitimate verb for adding an entry to a log… or a post to a blog, therefore.

Language may not be immutable, but I wish it to be consistent in some way, even if this is obviously impossible. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I sit in a corner surrounded by subeditors at work.

By: Bobbie Johnson

Bobbie Johnson — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:17:48 +0000

I was talking about this the other day, after I suddenly caught myself saying “I enjoyed that blog you wrote the other day” to somebody. It’s something picked up from hanging around with newbie bloggers; but obviously the change has set in, at least partially, in my head.

I have been pretty hardline about this in the past - blog, post, comment - but it’s increasingly problematic because we all tend to say “oh, yes I blogged that” rather than “I posted about that on a blog”.

Thing is, language isn’t immutable, even for subs (yes, I know). And while you might write stories instead of make magazines, the publisher DOES make magazines. So if I’m my own publisher, the line becomes very muddy. And people do “make TV”, “make radio” (as shorthand for TV programmes, radio programmes etc). Oh, it’s a tricky old thing isn’t it.

By: Mike Butcher

Mike Butcher — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:23:30 +0000

Having trained a number of RBI journos to blog during several courses in 2005, I can vouch for his view that many newbie blogger journos don’t get it. They continue to not get it mainly because they tend not to bury their head in the theory and conversations about blogging which happen in the tech space, but don;t happen much in the media space.

By: Best of the journalism blogs

Best of the journalism blogs — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Roy Greenslade points us to a column by Janet Street-Porter in the Independent which makes the extraordinary claim that Internet chatrooms cause suicide. Her argument appears to be that the Interne… This is not a ‘blog’ (it’s just part of one) RBI’s blogging supremo Adam Tinworth says he has given up on trying to correct people’s incorrect use of blogging terminology: In my day to day work, aiding and abetting blogging journalists, and a…

By: Martin Stabe

Martin Stabe — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

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