Writing a blog

March 10, 2008


Hold on for a few seconds. I’m going to get curmudgeony.

You don’t write a blog. You don’t post a blog. You don’t tell people about the blog you just wrote, about how you’ll talk about it on a forthcoming blog.

Blog is short for weblog, the entire entity that contains your writing. The Web site itself. The series of writings arranged in a descending chronological order. That’s a blog. Not the individual piece.

You write posts. Or articles. Or synopses. Stories. Reviews. But not blogs.

You write ON a blog. You write FOR a blog. But you don’t write a blog. That is, unless you’re talking in the technical sense; writing the code that will form a blog could be considered “writing a blog.” It’s like writing an article for a publication and saying “I just wrote a magazine,” or “You can read about in my latest magazine.”

That’s all. Semantics, I know. But it’s just something I’m tired of reading.

Tags: Annoyances, Blogging, Words |

Comments

4 Responses to “Writing a blog”

  1. Dawnne on March 10th, 2008 601 pm

    i blog, therefore i post.

  2. Deane on March 10th, 2008 1145 pm

    George Clooney, who is generally a kick-ass mofo, made this gaffe last year. It drove me nuts:

    “Miss Huffington’s blog is purposefully misleading and I have asked her to clarify the facts. I stand by my statements but I did not write this blog. With my permission Miss Huffington compiled it from interviews with Larry King and The Guardian. What she most certainly did not get my permission to do is to combine only my answers in a blog that misleads the reader into thinking that I wrote this piece. These are not my writings — they are answers to questions and there is a huge difference.”

  3. Corey Vilhauer on March 11th, 2008 815 am

    Yikes. He did it twice!

  4. Nils Geylen on March 17th, 2008 228 pm

    Good you said it. Drives me mental that one.

    Oh, one thing. The blog doesn’t have to be the web site, technically. It can be just part of it ;)

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