Blogging

I couldn't think of anything worthy to write a blog about this week, so I finally decided to do some research on blogging itself. I could probably write a book based on the volume of information that I found, but I will limit my comments to the blogging trivia I found to be most interesting. For instance, did you know that the collective community of all blogs is known as the Blogosphere? It leaves me wondering who comes up with these words and how they gain acceptance into our vocabulary? I think its probably a pretty good word for all blogging since the earth is in the shape of a "sphere," and the term is generally used to describe everything within that circle, or sphere. So Blogosphere is really quite relevant to all blogging within the bubble of earth's hemisphere. Who comes up with this stuff? I wonder if there was contest for the best word describing worldwide blog? When I think about it, I wonder who came up with the word "BLOG" in the first place, or any of the other blog associated words, such as, VLOG, PHLOG, or SPLOG.

Since there is so much information to be found about blogging, I've decided that this is a good topic for me to discuss in my weBLOG, or WeB Log (in case I got you curious about how the Blog word was conceived.) My next blog will be about some of the ways blogging is used.