addressing a personal pet peeve

A regularly maintained website with entries organized in reverse chronological order is called a “blog”.

An individual entry on such a website is called a “post” (“entry” works as well).

Thereby, the statement, “I wrote a blog yesterday” is inaccurate unless, of course, you are talking about writing the entire site.

Please, spread the word (you can even use blog posts).

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5 Comments

  1. Elizabeth

    So instead of ‘blogging’, it should be ‘posting’?

    And good point, I will attempt to correct myself from now on…I know I am at fault with this…:) Sorry Clint!

    Posted November 6, 2008 at 1:00 am | Permalink
  2. Clint

    I realize I am being overly dramatic here.

    “Blogging” as a verb is acceptable.

    “Posting to my blog” is acceptable usage.

    “Writing a blog” is incorrect.

    Posted November 6, 2008 at 1:03 am | Permalink
  3. Wow. And I thought I was anal-retentive. :)
    BTW, may be heading to ATL for the SEC Championship. I’ll let you know.

    Posted November 11, 2008 at 8:08 pm | Permalink
  4. So I wrote a blog today….moahahahha…ha…ha….

    that is all

    Posted November 12, 2008 at 2:48 pm | Permalink
  5. Jacob

    It doesn’t bother me too much, but people (including me) make a similar mistake in talking about internet access. They’ll say, “Do you have the internet here?” Well, no, I don’t. I do have access to the internet, though.

    Posted November 13, 2008 at 4:18 pm | Permalink