wowza. it’s incredible that it has been roughly
3 years from the word blog’s humble beginnings as a
peter
merholtz wordplay
to the object of a
william saffire discussion
. and thusly, without proper attribution, he writes The Official
Definition:
“Blog is a shortening of Web log. It is a Web site
belonging to some average but opinionated Joe or Josie who keeps
what used to be called a ”commonplace book” — a collection of
clippings, musings and other things like journal entries that
strike one’s fancy or titillate one’s curiosity. What makes this
online daybook different from the commonplace book is that this
form of personal noodling or diary-writing is on the Internet, with
links that take the reader around the world in pursuit of more
about a topic.”