They’re Posts, Not Blogs

Aug 25th 2006 View Comments

Here’s a little pet peeve of mine when teaching new bloggers. They refer to posts as “blogs”.

I’m not sure why, but that just makes my skin crawl.

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http://nektros.com Yvonne

As a former forumite, that’s just as bad as calling posts ‘threads’.
http://danzarrella.com Dan Zarrella

yeah and I can’t just flame a client like a n00b deserves… ;p
http://www.ryansgoblog.com/ Ryan Williams

I usually call them posts, but I sometimes use the term ‘bloggings’ (eg: “search for recent bloggings”) for some reason. Not sure why! There must be some similar word I’ve come across that inspired me to use it when I first started out.
http://floyds-online-income.blogspot.com Floyd Bogart

I call them posts, but sometimes use the verb that I “blogged” it.

I like words and language so I always try to use them as specifically as possible. Can’t say I always succeed, but is worth the efort IMHO…