OpalCat,
I stand corrected. You’re correct about labelling it as simply(but by no means simple) journal.
And thank you for the link.
(Like I said, I’m now checking some journals every day. There’s a lot of junk on the web, but I feel there’s a lot of good stuff, too.)
Global Citizen
Oh I wasn’t correcting you… just saying what I refer to mine as.
I kinda like the word, like bodge it has a reckless edge to it. I bodged my blog together last night, I might do a proper job of it later. 
Oh…see, in my opinion, there’s a difference between a journal and a weblargh. My journal is for a…well, a journal. My weblargh is where I put interesting links I run across day to day. Totally different things.
wee-blargh … chortle.
I’m glad I came in here late, because when someone helpfully said a “blog” meant “web log” I was going to ask what a web log was.
Now this is all clarified nicely. I feel all computery-knowing now.
I still hate the word blog no matter what it refers to. (but I’m pretty sure that most people’s “blogs” are their journals)
Well, I won’t torment you by repeating the B-word fifty times. Just don’t ever ask me about about my website[sup]1[/sup], or you’ll hear what you would not 
[sup]1[/sup]I cannot stand people who refer to “websights”. I wouldn’t call them clueless idiots, but die Gedanken sind frei, you know.
Yeah, I hate it too. It’s too cutesy for me.
I also hate it because I was (at least in my social circles) WAY ahead of the journal craze. Three years ago, I started sending a weekly email full of random musings, weird links, and what I was up to out to my friends. Mix LiveJournal with a Larry King column and Fark.com and you’ve got the idea. I had a running joke as the open (My name is Dave and xxx joke xxx) and always signed off with something weird.
I gave it up after a little less than two school years pretty much because I felt dumb writing it–like why would any care, even though people did write in and tell me how funny it was. Now, I know plenty of people that post even the most mundane things on LiveJournal or whatever.
Heck I’ve had my online journal since 1998.
as long as I have known it ‘to blog’ is to get someting for free.
as in ‘I blogged a guy out of two tickets for the concert tonight, do you want to go?’
but I digress.
Purists insist that a “blog” is a regularly updated list of links to articles and sites elsewhere on the web, usually about a particular area of interest, possibly with some comments by the blogger. EG: “Here’s an interesting Op-Ed piece in the Hicksville Times, though I don’t agree with it”
This is in contrast to an on-line diary/journal, which is primarily an account of the author’s thoughts and deeds, day to day - possibly with some links (or pictures, etc). EG: “Tonight I ironed the cat and took this neat photo of him”
Yes it is an ugly word. And, no, I don’t use it the way the purists do…
For the record OED has already added blog to its list of words to add in the next dictionary.
I would also like to note, I think its like the Gremlin cars - you know, those small cars that are so ugly they’re cute.
But that’s just me
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I like it so much that I use it in my signature. Blog blog blog blog blog!
Me too.
I also hate the word swag. Apparently “gear” had too short a shelf life.
How do you feel about swag lamps?
I’m afraid I happen to love it too.
No no. Swag Lamps are fine. I’m just at the age when I percieve making up new words for things for the sake of being “cool” is blindly being a slave to fashion.