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NikolaiI
04-27-2009, 05:25 PM
Does the word "blog" come from "web-log"? Just wondering.
BienvenuJDC
04-27-2009, 05:26 PM
Yes...yes it does!
AimusSage
04-27-2009, 05:32 PM
Really? I thought it was named after the Peruvian 'Bloggus Alottus', know for its continuous stream of random sounds...

Boy was I wrong. :goof:
Niamh
04-27-2009, 05:50 PM
:lol:
andave_ya
04-27-2009, 06:30 PM
Really? I thought it was named after the Peruvian 'Bloggus Alottus', know for its continuous stream of random sounds...

Boy was I wrong. :goof:

Peruvian?? I thought he was Latin :alien:.
AimusSage
04-27-2009, 06:35 PM
Peruvian?? I thought he was Latin :alien:.
I think it is called Peruvian because it was first seen there, but it was later found to exist all over Latin America. :p
NikolaiI
04-28-2009, 12:42 AM
You guys are proverbially pulling my leg, aren't you? (Except Bienvenu)
Shannanigan
04-28-2009, 01:18 PM
It does! I did my senior thesis on blogging! :D

It has also spawned the words "blogosphere" (the world of blogging) and "blogger" (a person who keeps a blog) and "blog" itself can also be a verb, as in "I am so going to blog about this LitNet thread!" or, more commonly, "I'm blogging this."

Also, some may totally eliminate the use of the word "about" in my example above, assuming that the reader understands that "I am so going to blog this" means that they will, indeed, write ABOUT it in their blog.