Thanks to the American Dialect Society for remininding me just what words were new, way back in 2002, when I started blogging:
2002 Word of the Year: weapons of mass destruction or WMD, sought for in Iraq. Most Likely to Succeed: blog, from “weblog,” a website of personal events, comments, and links. Most Useful: google (verb), as in “to google someone,” to search the Web using the search engine Google for information on a person or thing…
Think that’s pretty funny? When they started in 1990, a most-useful new term was “laptop computer,” which they thoughtfully defined as “a portable personal computer weighting 4-8 pounds.”
When did the tipping point come for “blog”, “blogging”, “blogger?
When was the last time your Uncle Norbert said, over Thanksgiving pie, “Lucille tells me that you’ve now got something called a blob?” And now, didn’t Aunt Tillie suddenly friend you in Twitter, asking to be blogrolled? I think comments are open here, though I’m still not totally sure how WordPress works…
Thanks to Resource Shelf whose link to new words just added to the OED sent me on that trip down memory lane…
2 responses so far ↓
1 fp // Mar 16, 2007 at 6:14 am
Nice to see the comments feature. I hope you have activated your Akismet spam plug-in! Between Akismet and moderation/blacklist options (found by clicking “options” then clicking “discussion”) managing comments is pretty painless.
2 Betsy Devine // Mar 16, 2007 at 5:32 pm
Hi Frank–yes, I did plug in Akismet. So I’m hoping to avoid some of the drive-by enthusiasts for online poker, teen porn, and the enlargement of arbitrary human bits that forced the shut-down of Manila comments.