Blogging02 Mar 2006 08:04 am
We blog, Weblogs, and web logging
Jason Kottke sets the record straight:
Dear New Yorker, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post and others**,
Please stop using the term “web log” to refer to a chronologically-ordered frequently-updated website. The correct term is “weblog”. Furthermore, “blog” is not short for “web log”, it is short for “weblog”.
[...]The original spelling of the term is “WebLog” as seen on Jorn Barger’s Robot Wisdom WebLog page from December 1997. It was never “web log”. In subsequent correspondence (like this Usenet post from June 1998), Barger himself referred to his site as a “weblog” and sites like his as “weblogs”.
