Comments on: It’s Short for “Web Log”

By: Soren Dayton, John Sasso and the Twitter Election at Blog P.I.

Soren Dayton, John Sasso and the Twitter Election at Blog P.I. — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:01:40 +0000

[...] An aside: The explanation of Twitter is cute; I remember not so long ago when they did that for blogs. [...]

By: Like Getting an E-mail from Your Grandmother at Blog P.I.

Like Getting an E-mail from Your Grandmother at Blog P.I. — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:36:34 +0000

[...] Which probably says something about the stratospheric rise of this particular company and website, and the resulting rapid proliferation of video-blogging. It wasn’t like this for blogs, at all. As I pointed out in the second post ever at Blog P.I., tech journalists such as David Pogue still feel they have to remind television viewers that a blog is “like a diary or a daily opinion column that you post on the Internet for all to see and comment on.” Yet Novak name checks YouTube like it’s an IBM Selectric. [...]

By: Who Are The Ad Wizards Who Came Up With This One? at Blog P.I. (beta)

Who Are The Ad Wizards Who Came Up With This One? at Blog P.I. (beta) — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 12:52:13 +0000

[...] Of course, the point is not that the RNC shouldn’t be trying to drum up bad publicity about Kos and his blog. The point is that they really should be doing a much, much better job than this. What’s more, if they really are intending this as the first shot in an ongoing campaign (see “Lieberman v. Lamont” halfway down the page, see also here) then it’s especially alarming. One assumes their next salvo will include an informative paragraph explaining what “web log” means. [...]

By: David Pogue

David Pogue — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 01:07:20 +0000

You’re absolutely correct about the percentage of people who don’t know what a blog is–in short, enormous. Two-thirds of Internet users, according to the survey you linked to–and since