BLOG!

Did you ever wonder about the word 'blog'? According to a recent study by the FCC, no one knows where the term 'blog' comes from. A lot of people thought that the word was created for the film, Juno, so that the devilishly witty teenage protagonist could rattle of hundreds of lines of increasingly unlikely witticisms and puns. Well, looks like the FCC was wrong this time. After a lot of intensive investigation and analysis of historical documents, I am pleased to be able to reveal to the internet the etymology of 'blog'.

'Blog' is actually a portmanteau of 'web log'. This illustration of the linguistic process should help:

WEB LOG
WEBLOG
-EBLOG
--BLOG

There's just one problem: why didn't they stop shortening when they got to 'e-blog'? I'm not sure if there was a committee or if maybe Frank Vincent, or someone of similar cultural influence started calling it a 'blog' and set a trend, or what. 'E-blog' just sounds much more "techno-savy" and "web 2.0" to me than 'blog' does. For instance, what is better, regular boring commerce, or e-commerce? In conclusion, here is a video of Airwolf


That is a great helicopter.