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WRITING HUMOR
We Need To Rebrand The Blog
Blerg? Bob?
I hate the word “blog”. It sounds like some kind of disgusting food that only British people eat.
“Oy, I’m popping round the pub for a pint and a bit of blog. Care to join me?”
And then you sit down to a glass of some black, room-temperature liquid they call “beer” and a bowl of hot dog vomit.
Bloggers endure a lot of contempt.
“It’s not real writing.”
“It’s just a glorified journal entry.”
“But you don’t make any money so what’s the point?”
“Blogs are self-indulgent and embarrassing.”
“Oh, you blog.” [Spoken by my boss in a tone of withering contempt.]
Blogging was invented in 1836 when Sir Edwin Bloggington’s notes to his local butcher got out of hand.
See, isn’t that interesting? I can’t believe you’re going to make me look this up.
The word blog is actually a shortened form of its original name, “weblog.” These weblogs allowed early internet users to “log” the details of their day in diary-style entries.
