Just for the record, the word Blog is an abomination before God and all his little sisters. I dislike it in the strongest possible way. Its sound strips away every connotation and nuance one wants it to convey - there is no prose in it, no music, no literature, no philosophy. It sounds like a less serious form of webserver logfile. It sounds like a euphemism. It is onomatapaeic in a bad way. It sounds like a badly typed hairball. I can’t take it seriously, but it isn’t funny.
Ok, so I don’t have an alternative easy to digest four-letter word for this thing that the unsavvy masses can come to grips with. My question is, do we really need one so badly that we’ll gladly embrace Blog?
There is an alternative. It’s lj.
Works for me. Tell me, how come it matters to you that we post here and not there?
Lj can send the comments straight to you. It’s easy peasy.
Oh and Hello! ~waves~
I dunno, I think the word ‘blog’ accurately describes, as an onomotopeia, the majority of the web journal content out there. Randomly hacked up after too many mai tais at a party. Blooooogggggg*splat*
Noelle:
The problem with lj, as a word, is that it refers to a specific website and system. Like Kleenex, it may in time become a generic term, but I am not sure eljay is more syntactically satifying than blog. Besirdes, it’s 5 letters instead of 4.
As for comments, I would prefer comments to be in one place. The reason I like them in one place is that comments become conversation, become an interaction not just with me but with other commenters. Having comments here, there, maybe somewhere else, seems to fracture and diminish the conversation. Having them all here specifically is easier for me, and less a cognitive dissonance for readers who are not lj regulars. I realize it is a bit selfish and perhaps delusional considering how few people comment anyway, but its my journal, and thats the way I like it.
Through the magic of technology, I should be able to synchronize comments, too, but I haven’t worked it out yet. I’d rather not have to write an rss parser from scratch, and how do you maintain identity across an automated reposter? It is a question for our times, and I don’t have an answer yet.
You could use the eternally sexy “jrnl”.
Eternally, sexily yours,
Paige
I don’t know about the rest of the unwashed masses, but I call it a journal.
Ah Kennric, you have illustrated why I prefer lj for my journaling. I hadn’t known that you commented back to me until just a moment ago.
And to find that information I had to backtrack in your lj feed to the appropriate entry then follow it back to here to find your
comment. And I’m also unable to comment directly to your comment. Honestly I find that frustrating.
I recognize that you are wired differently than I. What you want out of social interactions could very well be very different from what
I want.
Maybe, this “blog” format suits your needs better as lj suits mine well.
I too dislike the word “blog”. It sounds to me very much like the sound one makes when vomiting. Unpleasant. Though that may be apt
sometimes.
Still, I think journal sounds prettier and lots more dignified.
Yes, journal is not bad. It’s what I have always preferred, but it has a personal, intimate air, it is closer in annotation to diary than to … journalism?
Noelle, you also make my point for me - for you, lj is “home”, it’s where you read and post, so comments and navigation in that environment are easy for you. In the same way, lj comments are a pain for me, since this is my “home” and its easier for me to deal with everything here.
I do agree about the lack of threaded comments, and this will be fixed soon (along with email notifications). I really wish lj would let me rss my comments there, and pick up an rss of comments here - in other words sync both ways. For now, though, if you want to keep track of comments on this page, well, you have to visit this page. Crazy, huh?