I thought posting my writing on here was already a form of blogging, but according to blog's etymology, I was wrong. It is an online diary, or web-log, that has stolen the last letter of web in its brief evolution. Presumably 'wlog' sounded too much like your tongue was adding to a life-long slug impression with its first vocals.
Being aware this is one and I am soon to be one, a blog and bloggers tend to pull on my cringe strings. The low-bar for self-publication means low-brow can shuffle right through. Looking into the "etymoblogy", it seems I am not the only one casting a critical eye.
Here's what this bsite wrote about it:
blog (n.)
"online journal," 1998, short for weblog (which is attested from 1993 but in the sense "file containing a detailed record of each request received by a web server"), from (World Wide) Web (n.) + log (n.2). Joe Bloggs (c. 1969) was British slang for "any hypothetical person" (compare U.S. equivalent Joe Blow); earlier blog meant "a servant boy" in one of the college houses (c. 1860, see Partridge, who describes this use as a "perversion of bloke"), and, as a verb, "to defeat" in schoolboy slang. The Blogger online publishing service was launched in 1999.
So, a blog owes its origin story to 'anonymous no-ones', 'slave children', 'perverse blokes' and 'to bully'. And I thought it just sounded like a stupid stick.
However, enough is enough. Before I start writing a blog about meta-blogs, I'm gonna put a blog in it.
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