Sunday, June 25, 2006

blog spelled backwards is golb

Vocabulary words:
  • Blog (1). n. Etymology: contraction of "weblog." A journal, epistle, commentary, or other serial document, publicly posted on the Internets.
  • Blog (2). v. To maintain or update a blog.
  • Blogger. n. One who blogs.
  • Blogosphere. n. The community of blogs and bloggers, best exemplified by bloggers whose blogs attract many comments from other bloggers.
  • Blogroll. n. A list of links found in a sidebar to many blogs, leading to other blogs that the blogger finds interesting. This blog does not contain a blogroll because this blogger is afraid of the letters "HTML."
  • HTML. Abbreviation. (For what, now? Surely not "Hold the mayo, Larry?") What I would have to learn about if I wanted to create a blogroll, thus more thoroughly entering the blogosphere.
  • Internets, the. n. Etymology: Didn't the President say this or something? Sarcastic, self-conscious, and completely passe way of referring to the blogosphere and other online activities.
  • Meme. n. Etymology: Fr. "meme" (means "same") or Eng. "me, me" (means "me, me"). A blog entry, usually in the form of a list (e.g. "Ten Things I Never Eat for Breakfast" or "Twenty-seven Reasons Not to Interrupt Me During Buffy the Vampire Slayer") and usually revealing personal details about the blogger. Memes are passed around the blogosphere from blog to blog; the possible French origin of the word highlights the fact that many bloggers use the same memes, while the possible English origin highlights the nature of the content of most memes.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This blog does not contain a blogroll because this blogger is afraid of the letters "HTML."

--I laughed out loud!!

Fidget said...

:o) Have you noticed that Blogger spell check doesn't recognize the word "BLog"?