I’m not the only pedant!
Jason Kottke posts on the origins of the term “weblog”.
That had some detail even I didn’t know.
I still hate the term “blog”, though. A “blog” sounds like a specimen you give a doctor. A “weblog” is a log that’s on the Web, or a log of the Web. Of course, it’s shorter than journallog, which is really foofy and somewhat superfluous, and after 1998 or so, e-something or online something both became passe.
But if you call my site a blog, I’ll beat you up.

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