Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A website that displays postings by one or more individuals in chronological order and usually has links to comments on specific postings.
- intransitive verb To write entries in, add material to, or maintain a blog.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Internet A
website that allows users to reflect, share opinions, and discuss various topics in the form of an online journal while readers may comment on posts. Most blogs are written in a slightly informal tone (personal journals, news, businesses, etc.) Entries typically appear in reverse chronological order. - noun blogging An
entry in a blog. - verb blogging To
contribute to a blog. - verb UK, slang To
blag , tosteal something; Toacquire something illegally.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb read, write, or edit a shared on-line journal
- noun a shared on-line journal where people can post diary entries about their personal experiences and hobbies
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Today's question: how will a community respond to the surfacing of an alleged murderer's blog, and the blog* of his girlfriend/alleged victims' daughter which contains case-related content?
Information, Culture, Policy, Education: More murderblogs 2005
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Discovered that someone who's not supposed to have known about your blog has discovered your blog******
bettyalready Diary Entry bettyalready 2005
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Today's question: how will a community respond to the surfacing of an alleged murderer's blog, and the blog* of his girlfriend/alleged victims' daughter which contains case-related content?
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I need related website（except free blog, spam blog）
Digital Point Forums seasonying 2010
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Ensure that user is blog owner, and create @blog. def protect_blog @blog =
Recently Uploaded Slideshows midpoint 2009
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The most novel feature in the Posts controller appears in the create action, where we use the array append operator to push a new post onto the current list of blog posts: 21 @blog. posts
Recently Uploaded Slideshows midpoint 2009
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Hey all you can add your domain for sale in EzineDomain. com blog and directory for free as new topic "search engine friendly blog+ directory" and get more Bids for your domain name
Digital Point Forums 2008
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Spec. new @faq = @user. faq | | = Faq. new @blog = @user. blog | | = Blog. new end The blog management page itself is simple.
Recently Uploaded Slideshows midpoint 2009
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And like stated above that “joke” doesn’t seem appropiate of a place like blog@ or newsarama in general and it’s more fit to a personal blog if it needs to be made.
Linkarama@Newsarama 2009
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15.3 Building the real blog 459 It's worth noting that the RESTful blog id is available as params [: blog_id], which we use to find @blog in the protect_blog function.
Recently Uploaded Slideshows midpoint 2009
jonjonz commented on the word blog
This word is an abomination. It sounds like someone took a long, painfull, smelly, and uncomfortable dump and left the results with misplaced pride for others to revile. The use of this word marks the user as pretentious, shallow and most of all vain. "Vanity Press" is more accurate. Most people who use the word cannot explain the difference between a web page created using CMS, or hand coded. I am sure William Shakespeare would never stoop to coming within 10 feet of anything with such an abhorrent perversion of the language.
December 2, 2006
seanahan commented on the word blog
Shakespeare made up a ton of words, and some of them sounded pretty awkward. Saying that he wouldn't like this word is ridiculous. Whatever arguments you may have against the word, you need to separate it from a completely meaningless assertion that Shakespeare wouldn't like it.
December 2, 2006
dbmag9 commented on the word blog
Aside from seanahan's valid rebuttal, I think that you've made a substantial error, jonjonz, by confusing the properties of sound and meaning. You begin your tirade "It sounds like..." (refering to the sound) but end it by talking about pride, which (you say) refers to the meaning. Be clear what you are talking about.
As an aside, "Vanity Press" would surely not be appropriate for a digital medium, no?
December 2, 2006
john commented on the word blog
To each their own, but jonjonz, but I hope you don't boycott Wordie when I start one. It needs a place to archive annoucements, and "page for brief messages, in reverse chronological order, on which one can leave comments" is too, well, wordy. Also, what do Content Management Systems (CMS's) have to do with the price of eggs? A worse linguistic crime than a useful abbreviation is the proliferation of useless tech jargon, especially when in the form of acronyms.
December 8, 2006
edwardvielmetti commented on the word blog
"For What It's Worth
I've decided to pronounce the word "weblog" as wee'- blog. Or "blog" for short." April/May 1999.
http://www.peterme.com/archives/00000205.html
January 3, 2007
seanmeade commented on the word blog
hate the sound of this word
March 26, 2007
jameshome commented on the word blog
"oh man, I'm really sorry, that last round of shots got right on top of me and I totally blogged into your philodendron."
July 22, 2007
pterodactyl commented on the word blog
Would you use the word "blog" to mean "blog entry"?
For a while now, I've seen people using the word in this way. For example, they might say "I wrote a blog this morning, and I'll probably write another one after dinner". This usage makes me cringe. It's the kind of thing you'd hear from people who might also talk about "watching a YouTube" or "reading the Wikipedia" -- i.e. people who aren't tech-savvy.
But now, more and more, I'm seeing people who ARE tech-savvy using "blog" to mean "blog entry". I still hate it, but I recognize that in a living language, words' meanings can change. Do you think that's what's happening with "blog"?
June 1, 2011
sionnach commented on the word blog
I wrote a book this morning, and I'll probably write another one after dinner.
Oh, sorry. I meant a paragraph.
Oops! Make that a sentence.
Word.
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Cede the language to the pea-brained and we can all just go quietly extinct.
June 1, 2011
hernesheir commented on the word blog
Blog me a river.
June 1, 2011
zeke commented on the word blog
Attach a timestamp to a piece of text. Present it in reverse-chronological order.
July 13, 2011
antidengki commented on the word blog
blog is my energy
April 21, 2013
amzolt commented on the word blog
Too many folks forget that blogs are social media...
September 21, 2015