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Just as "majority" didn't quite fit, "blog" isn't quite right for all sites such as this one where folks contribute posts.....
....and incidentally still wondering in the meantime if anyone might have encountered an abbreviation or other shortie for the computer, as "PC" means to many only the typical modular Windows type
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PC already means that and always has. However IBM and Microsoft advertising have succeeded in associating their specific products with the term in the public consciousness. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computerWordsmith is not a blog. It consists of several different pieces of software, one of which is a bulletin board. Another piece is a newsletter.
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eta thank you most kindly for those links. I hadn't realized how "blog" has smeared, coming to mean any sort of weblog. Just as I had been taken to task by my my techie family for referring to my new Mac as "PC", so had I been raked over the coals for calling a weblog like this one a "blog" Evidently it used to mean only a specific kind of weblog, now called the "personal blog" where participants chat about their everyday affairs
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I hadn't realized how "blog" has smeared, coming to mean any sort of weblog. The word blog is derived from the word weblog, some say through reanalysis as we blog. This is not smearing. This is the canonical definition.
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>This is not smearing. This is the canonical definition.
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I'm dumbfounded. As far as I can determine "blog is short for "weblog" which is defined--at least by Dictionary.com as
web·log (wěb'lôg', -lŏg') Pronunciation Key
n. A website that displays in chronological order the postings by one or more individuals and usually has links to comments on specific postings.
So doesn't that make WS a blog
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did you read the wikipedia links, dale? or are you just into some chain-wanking?
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PC already means that and always has. Forgive me Fal, but means what However IBM and Microsoft advertising have succeeded in associating their specific products with the term in the public consciousness. I'm sorry again Fal but which term or terms with which specific product or products http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computerWordsmith is not a blog. It consists of several different pieces of software, one of which is a bulletin board. Another piece is a newsletter.
[/quote] See my foregoing post
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