Small language note

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I just observed the New York Times offhandedly mention "Web logs". While it's cool that the NYT now feels that blogs are ubiquitous enough not to deserve a dependent clause popping up to explain what they are with every first mention (I remember when "Internet" needed that kind of exposition), does anyone who leared about blogs through traditional mass media know them as any other name than "blogs"? I guess some NYT readers might, but ih... I guess this is a risk that a newspaper takes when it fastens a neologism in its style guide too quickly.

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[rikchik.livejournal.com]

"Web log" is pretty self-explanatory - it's obviously a log of some kind, on the Web, and the rest of the context will probably clear it up. "Blog" is an actual neologism, albeit one that you'd think NYTimes readers would know by now.