Indeed! Blog is an ugly word. Weblog is an ugly word.
The relationship I will have with Russell Shaw — blogfather and blogson or blogchild — is delimited by ugly words.
The ultimate ugly word associated with wegblogging, itself an ugly word:
Blogosphere.
It sounds like something Uncle Chester had to hack up every morning before his day could get started.
How soon will these words change?
Right after they fix the HVAC system in Persephone’s winter home…
Technorati Tags: blogging, real estate marketing
Jon Ernest says:
I always liked Blogtopia or even better Blogistan.
So what are you thinking?
Maybe an Acronym of sorts:
Online Descriptive Diary
New Electronic Reporting Document Systems
Or maybe we could go the Prince route:
? (the document formerly known as blog)
November 13, 2006 — 3:00 pm
Jon Ernest says:
I don’t think Bloodhound? has quite the same ring to it though…
November 13, 2006 — 3:02 pm
Greg Swann says:
How about “codex”. Reputedly the codex (root — caudex, “tree stump”) was invented by Caesar or his scribes when he was writing De Bello Gallico — a weblog about the conquest of the Gauls. Caudex also means “blockhead”, so that works, too.
Seriously. these words are much, much larger than real estate weblogging, and I don’t expect them to change.
November 14, 2006 — 9:38 am