Fifteen seconds of fame?
The Corner at the National Review credits me with the possibility of first using the term ‘blogotry.’ When I first joined this bizarre little pastime, we all were busily prepending “blog-” to just about every word in the English lexicon ... manufacturing self-importance—and self-absorption. We needed it then, a playful positive attitude, to keep the ball rolling.
Do we still need it?
Calling ourselves ‘blog-‘anything reflects a certain immaturity that may be apropos to the youth of the medium and the mildly tolerated overexuberance of bigoted devotees, but for myself ... the ‘blog-‘ing is becoming tedious. I believe I’ll swear off it. I already have replaced ‘blogosphere’ with ‘metacosm,’ prefering a more highbrow term that sounded less like something you extract during sinus drainage.
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That’s why Philly Future is “Philly Future” and not “phillyblogs.com” (which I happen to own and not use). I knew this day was going to come sooner or later.
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How come no one ever made up blogdit? That is funny!
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