Portmanteau

Blog, Internet, podcast… words of portmanteau nature. There, now that we've got this defined we can talk about it. Or… engage in new media weblog conversation, a blogversation if you will. Ya know, 'cause we're not really talking. You're just reading these words of wisdom, worsdom if you will. 

I think people just like making up new words that aren't really new. Why not call a log that is kept on the world wide web a zloksnik instead of a blog? Would it not accomplish the same goal? Eh, probably not.

I feel that this is really a dead issue. I don't have much to blogversate about it.

But I do feel that the lexicon and terminology used online is becoming more and more common. Even my mom knows what a blog and a podcast is now. The times they are a changin'.  It's important to realize how much your own language is changing due just to the new technology you are utilizing.

I thought of myself as a purist, kind of fought the blog thing for a while. Then I decided to try it and now I'm talking about hyperlinks, HTML codes, blogospheres, and things like that. You can only hold out so long, then technology takes over either by necessity or a decision you make. In doing so it takes over your language and the new media is making it more portmanteau-natured. Crazy.