A spokesman for the Oxford University Press said that the word was now being put into other dictionaries for children and learners, reflecting its mainstream use.

“I think it was the word of last year rather than this year,” he said.

“Now we’re getting words that derive from it such as ‘blogosphere’ and so on,” he said.

“But,” he added, “it’s a pretty recent thing and in the way that this happens these days it’s got established very quickly.” —Why 2004 was the year of the blog (BBC)

Thanks for the suggestion, Rosemary.

Worth noting: Blood’s Law of Weblog History: The year you discovered weblogs and/or started your own is ‘The Year Blogs Exploded’.

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  • Blog - my definition: human generated spam.
    Ok, some blogs contains interesting stuff, but most are just jibberish.

  • You got to this topic quicker than I did. I wrote a little write up about this as well in my blog. I can't believe "blog" was the #1 word searched for on Merriam-Webster. Its all because of you Dr. Jerz!!

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