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I've never liked the word "blog." A log of stuff on the web is a web log, to my mind, not a we blog. So I use "log" in the URL for this joint. The word just kind of grates on my eyes, and ears.

Plenty of people have gone on the record as hating neologisms like "blogosphere." I found a new one for them to hate: blook! Which is, of course, "the world's fastest-growing new kind of book and an exciting new stage in the life cycle of content, if not a whole new category of content."

Why is this a whole new category? Because these books are based on material that was once in a blog, as opposed to material that was once in a handwritten journal (jlooks!) or real-life experiences (rlooks!) or drugged-out hallucinations (H.S. Thompson books!) I guess.

The folks who come up with these pretentious labels for their oh-so-all-brand-new ways to put words in front of the eyes of a reader need to be slapped, hard. With a bound collection of paper sheets on which are printed words inspired by content once available only on a dynamically produced HTML page. You know. A book.