[Continued from the Volokh inspired “What To Call An Argument Between Two Bloggers?” post]
A “bloast” is, of course, when you write about some self aggrandizing achievement on your blog! 🙂
PS. I’ve gotten 63 comments so far from a post I wrote two days ago… I’m awesome!!!!
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The New York Times Has an article today describing the self actualized members of the Tea Party movement as conspiracy theory nutters.
The ebbs and flows of the Tea Party ferment are hardly uniform. It is an amorphous, factionalized uprising with no clear leadership and no centralized structure. Not everyone flocking to the Tea Party movement is worried about dictatorship. Some have a basic aversion to big government, or Mr. Obama, or progressives in general. What’s more, some Tea Party groups are essentially appendages of the local Republican Party.
Awakened by the recession
But most are not. They are frequently led by political neophytes who prize independence and tell strikingly similar stories of having been awakened by the recession.
Crap.
OK, the New York Times published an article highlighting the fact that more than a few nutters are a part of the Tea Party Party thing. I was going to write a long essay on this topic, but I realized that all that needs to be said about the Tea Party movement, which started out as a protest against fiscal recklessness but has now morphed into… God, who knows what, has already been discussed…. brilliantly…. Right Here.
Full episode here.
Uber Law Blogger Eugene Volokh is contemplating the various terms we use to describe the process we call blogging. He notes that if you look back on other written records, such as a “ship’s log” something written into the record has been traditionally called an “entry”. I refer to a “blog entry” as either an article or post. In five years, I don’t recall using the term “entry”. It seems so… formal, and doesn’t feel right for what I do.
I find it interesting, that we are watching the creation of a whole new lexicon that revolves around a new technology. A number of years back, my band was practicing at an old semi-abandoned farmhouse that had been in my guitarists family for over a century, but had seen little use in many years. After practice, we were thumbing through some old books, some more the 50 years old. Two that caught my attention were among the oldest on the shelf, dating back to 1910-ish. They were first hand accounts describing the joy of owning an automobile, a very rare thing in the day. The books described not only the experiences of owning and driving the at-the-time unique machines, but also covered the technologies involve in the “gasoline powered internal combustion engine”, but also described various roadside repairs, which was vital knowledge as there were very few if any repair facilities, except maybe in the largest cities. There were so many terms for things we now include in our daily lexicon that simply didn’t exist in the day. There was no “gas station” or repair shop” as we know it. The term “car” appeared nowhere in either of the books – if you owned an automobile, you were called an “automobilist”.
Like that period, we are seeing new terms, or the adaptation of existing terms, that accommodate to the emergence of new technologies. My favorites:
Blogiversary – the anniversary of a blog publication (mine is January5, 2005).
Blog-Pal – a friendship that exists strictly through communication via blogs. See “pen-pal” for reference.
And my favorite…
The blargument!!!!