27 March 2008

Blog Semantics


Is a blog a blog or a post?

Of course it was first called a weblog , then people truncated it by calling it a blog. A blog was where the page was
that you posted, but it also seemed to refer to the actual post.

But if you said, "I just posted a blog, go read it."-- that would seem to indicate that you created a blog site every time you posted...even though most people know that's not what you meant. You meant you posted a post. Or blogged a post.

But you don't say, "go visit my posts", you say "go visit my blog." Because
hopefully, they will read all your posts, posted at your blog.

Although you could very well go visit a post, I suppose. And you would be on that person's blog.



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