a Pants Service Announcement
August 9, 2010 at 3:15 PM
I've been blogging for over 10 years now, which means I'm ancient in terms of bloggers. I don't have the power-numbers the likes of Dooce and Pioneer Woman, but I also don't have the will to promote myself and my site like those two either. I give them credit for doing what they're doing and making it work, but I don't strive for that kind of online presence. I like to hop around and not use my real last name. I've been "recognised" in public once or twice and frankly, it freaked me the fuck out. However, with the second, third, fourth, whatever wave of blogging cresting and breaking over the public once again, I do feel the need to get a pet peeve off my chest regarding the subject. See, with all these new people just discovering Blog Valley High (I am not a subscriber to the term "blogosphere" or "blogoverse" but those terms aren't really my peeve), there are terminology mix ups being made, repeated, and perpetuated into acceptance. And perhaps if I'd spoken up sooner and louder when people started saying "I'm out of pocket" to mean "unreachable" instead of "paying with my own money, not the company's credit card," people would be using the phrase correctly today instead of driving me fucking bonkers by saying one thing and meaning a whole other. So listen up, people; especially those of you who have discovered blogging within the last 3 years. The word "blog" is short for "weblog." Think of it as a journal. Just as one would write entries into a journal, one writes posts for a blog. The blog itself encompasses the entire make-up of all of the entries. The act of writing can be called blogging but each post is not a blog. Please stop calling each post a blog. Each post is a post. Each post is an entry into the journal. Unless one is James-Joyce kind of prolific, he's presumably not writing an entire journal or blog every fucking time he writes. "Read my blog for today." No. No soup for you. This is incorrect. "I my latest post on my blog." Gold star. It's not a big thing, to be sure. It's minor, it's trivial, and I'd really hate to have to shank a bitch over it. So just stop.
pet peeves, shank a bitch
Reader Comments (7)
Can I add one that I think trumps both of those in annoyance value? I hate - HATE - when someone refers to a comment as a fucking blog. Like, in a comment discussion on a news story, for example, I see all too often lately that people are calling each comment they make "blogs". Ex. "I didn't say that in my previous blog. You're trying to put words in my mouth." "Didn't you even read my blog? I didn't call you a racist!!! But just so you know, you are a bigot." That sort of thing. It's like nails on a chalk board, I swear!
I've never heard that, thankfully. Because that would definitely cause me to shank a bitch.
We just had a meeting about starting a company blog last week. And a certain HR employee kept referring to the posts as blogs. I was ready to strangle her by the end of the meeting.
YES!! You did not BLOG...you posted. I freaking want to climb up the wall every time someone says they're blogging and no, they were posting a f****************************************** comment, douche. ARGGH!
Agreed.
Although I used to use the word "posted" for a very vulgar sexual activity that I won't blight your blog with. Let's just say it still makes me stifle an immature giggle when someone writes "I just posted about that."
I nearly had a heart attack when a relative of mine, said something snarky about one of my status updates on facebook and he said, "well that was a stupid little blog on here now wasn't it" and I was forced to lecture him about right and wrong and keeping your yap shut instead of broadcasting your ignorance.
Suffice it to say, yes, it bugs me horrendously too.
OY, why does your comments box say "Create Post" and "Preview Post" when you're finished typing up a "COMMENT". (I'm joking - but seriously.)