Blogging the OED
LISNews.com reports that the online OED has added New Oxford English Dictionary Words including "blog, v.; blogger, n.; blogging, n.; weblog, n.; weblogger, n.; weblogging, n." Their definition of blogging is:
The activity of writing or maintaining a weblog.
1999 Re: Description of Weblogs in deja.comm.weblogs (Usenet newsgroup) 27 July, Any aspiring author want to write ‘Blogging for Dummies’? 2000 Whole Earth Winter 53/1 Why is blogging so popular?.. The Web has long been home to tens of thousands of different cultures, but there hasn't been a culture for the Web; not until bloggers came along. 2001 Economist 6 July 67/1 Blogging..has in the past couple of years exploded from a cultish techie activity into a cottage industry churning out increasingly compelling content.
"A cultish techie activity"? Hmmm.
Posted by dcplumer at March 18, 2003 09:42 PM