Journos Explain Blogging, Speak Slowly

Andrew Sullivan’s essay in the Atlantic, “Why I Blog,” is interesting enough for bloggers — and mild enough for their grandmas, as evidenced by his lede:

“The word blog is a conflation of two words: Web and log. It contains in its four letters a concise and accurate self-description: it is a log of thoughts and writing posted publicly on the World Wide Web. In the monosyllabic vernacular of the Internet, Web log soon became the word blog.”

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