This Is a Post, Not a Blog

By Adam Tinworth on February 18, 2008 7:33 AM | 2 Comments | No TrackBacks
Ectoplasmosis:

PPS: Note to print journalists like Rafael Behr deigning to comment on the Internet -- nothing makes you look more clueless and out-of-touch than when you refer to a post as a "blog." Ectomo is a (we)blog. The article you are reading now is a post. This is not difficult to comprehend.

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Andrew Rogers
By Andrew Rogers on February 18, 2008 9:40 AM | Reply

Do you think it would help if bloggers changed their use of the verb to agree with the noun?

I.e. Replace

Q: "What are you doing?"
A: "Oh, I'm blogging"

With

Q: "What are you doing"
A: "Oh, I'm posting"

Just a thought.

Martin
By Martin on February 18, 2008 10:55 AM | Reply

Amen.

Another good one to get into the stylebook is the redundancy "online blog".

As opposed to all those offline blogs, I suppose?

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