To blog or to journal, that is the question…
(My apologies to Shakespeare…)
Been thinking about a lot of this “Web 2.0″ talk that has been coming around more and more. I might sound a bit “get off my lawn”-ish but I can’t stand it. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not about to go anti-tech on anyone, (heck, I have a Facebook, Livejournal, Twitter and have a Myspace that really needs to die so there will be none of this pot calling kettle black 
).
This talk of “blogging” is really driving me nuts. I personally have gotten aggravated at the word “blog”. It sounds like something the cat does at 2AM when I’m trying to sleep. “Oh god, the cat’s hacking up a blog on the carpet again.”
I’m not sure what it is exactly about the word blog that does it in for me but it’s like the four letter version of the old English teacher screeching her plastic press-on nails across the real-slate chalkboards of old-school time.
I much prefer the sound “journal”. It may be old fashioned, but to “blog” something makes it feel hastily dreamed up, crammed into a textbox and shoved through the server like your life depended on it. “Journalling” sounds like you sat down, took conscious effort and gracefully typed out the post.
Maybe it’s just me? I know that “blogging” is the “in” thing to do now, but what do you feel about the new terminology that is cropping up? What words do you like or dislike?
Oh yeah, and just for kicks:
From XKCD.com - Interblag