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Interesting reminder last night of how

2015-04-28 14:25:04.137074+00 by Dan Lyke 1 comments

Interesting reminder last night of how the word "blog" has morphed from meaning the thing it was originally coined to describe.

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#Comment Re: Interesting reminder last night of how made: 2015-04-28 17:57:40.425831+00 by: Dan Lyke

From the Facebook thread https://www.facebook.com/danlyke/posts/10153302939544540

I am definitely not a language prescriptionist, but here's a random snapshot from the web site of the guy who coined the "weblog" term... https://web.archive.org/web/20...05223639/http://robotwisdom.com/

And here's the web site of the guy who shortened it to blog, in the era when he did the shortening: http://www.peterme.com/browsed/browsed120199.html

And the amazing and missed Brad Graham on the term... http://www.bradlands.com/weblog/comments/september_10_1999/