Blogs vs Blog Posts, What We Call Them
We all write blogs here, but we use the term differently. To me, a blog is a dot com or sometimes dot net or dot org where people have a collection of posts and pages organized around a topic which may be broad (say internet marketing) to narrow (say running shoes for women with big feet).
Wikipedia agrees with me, in a more long-winded definition: A blog (a truncation of "weblog")[1] is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts).
To beginners and sometimes to people who surprise me here at WA, the word is used (ahem, mis-used in my opinion) to mean one post on a blog. I have to admit that I grit my teeth when I see that.
But hey my mother (shown here in her younger years) wrote engineering textbooks for the U.S. Navy, and their first aid book in the 1950s, so I was raised to be precise. VERY precise or she would mark up my homework and I'd have to do it all over again.
That childhood lesson has stayed with me. It can even make me a bit pedantic, like now! Oh, that reminds me of a quote my mother attributed to Winston Churchill. When told that he should not end a sentence with a preposition, he said, according to Mom, "This is the sort of pedantic nonsense up with which I shall not put."
I'll stick to my rant:
This article is a blog post, on my blog, on the WA website.
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Precisely! The photo of your mother is wonderful - what a gorgeous and dreamy picture. How fascinating that she wrote engineering textbooks for the U.S. Navy as well as their first aid book.
My mother instilled in me the importance of proper grammar, spelling, usage, along with a broad vocabulary. To this day my mother is my ultimate thesaurus; I can always just ask her if I'm ever in doubt. :)
I'm off to write a blog post and then publish it on my blog...
Thanks for the help with this misunderstood topic Rosana. I have been confused too, but now I know the truth. When I first started here I was encouraged to blog. I thought I don't want to create a blog I want to create a website. Obviously I have learned a lot since that time and have a blog on my website. Thanks.
Ray
You are, of course, right, Rosana, but then words do sometimes acquire new or additional meanings over time. One classic example is Google which is now officially recognized as a verb as well as a noun.
Colette and Philip
Glad you set us straight. It's okay to rant...there are a few things that make me grit my teeth; for example, misuse of apostrophes.
(Many people would put one in apostrophes...makes me squirm.)
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Hi Rosanna, could not resist making a comment about your "blog post". My husband, and all 3 of my step sons...ALWAYS say "Where is it at?" It drives me crazy. I correct my husband but not his sons. My mother was a speech teacher. Maybe that is the reason it disturbs me????
Sure could be!