Beginners Blog 101

I see that the Lone Ranger no longer rides alone.  Just in the last 36 hours, there have been almost 250 hits on my little playing field here -- and not even half of them were from me.  Hopefully this will be my home base for a while, so please keep sliding head-first into it.  A blog doesn't mean much if no one is reading it and commenting on it. 

Speaking of blogs, it seems that there are more than a few of you out there who don't know what they are.  This surprised me a bit, but maybe it shouldn't have.  I'm pretty certain that if you went on any college campus and surveyed the students, at least 90 percent of them would be able to tell you what a blog is and probably half of those already have their own blog.  Of course, my reading audience isn't made up of college students.  We are, instead, the generation that just missed out on the computer revolution.  Learning how to read and send email was a big step forward for us. 

So, in an effort to educate, here is the definition of blog, as provided by Merriam-Webster:

Blog: noun [short for Weblog] (1999) : a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer.

You may be interested to know that blog, according to Merriam-Webster, was the No. 1 Word of 2004, based on on-line lookups.  If you're curious, here is Merriam-Webster's complete Top 10 List for 2004. 

Comments

[Donna]

hmmmm, I've always referred to it as just a "weblog", didn't know there was a hip way to slang it by just eliminating the first 2 letters.....Wow, that saves us all a whole lot of time...let's see it takes a nanosecond to pronounce "we", multiplied by maybe a million people...divided by 60....wait a minute, what's a nanosecond, you ask?? that brings us to a whole nother trekkie world!