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Blog 

Professor David Crystal 

In 2001, I wrote a book called, Language and the Internet, 

and I didn’t mention the word blog. Well, this year, I have 

a second edition out. In it goes, that’s how fast the internet 

moves.  

Those who blog, bloggers, carry out the activity of 

blogging, setting up a blog site, with a unique web address 

in order to do so. It’s an abbreviation of ‘web log’; a phrase 

that was first used in 1997, both as a noun and as a verb, 

a web log. 

It’s essentially a content management system, a way of 

getting content on to a webpage; it’s a genre, a bit like 

diary writing, or bulletin posting. I mean, people add their 

posts or diary entries, with some regularity, if you’re a 

blogger you do it daily at least, often several times a day.  

So at one extreme there’s the personal diary, kept by an individual who 

wants to tell the whole world about his or her activities, or interests and 

opinions and so on. And then at the other extreme, there’s the corporate 

blog, maintained by an institution, such as a radio station or a music 

store.  

Well, there are even more coinages about to come, it seems to me. The 

totality of all blog sites in the world is known as the blogosphere. And if 

you have a blog and it goes on for too long, be careful, because 

somebody might describe you as having blogarrhoea!