New Name

I don't know if I'm alone here or not, but I really hate the word 'blog'. There's something about the word that sounds stupid, that makes me embarrassed when I talk about it. It's not the actual function of the thing. I love the idea of being able to write and take pictures and play music and have it all instantaneously available to the world. That's awesome.

But the word for it all? It's just kind of nauseating.

So I'm thinking. I'm trying to come up with a new name for what we do. Something that's obvious and doesn't need to be explained, but also something that has a positive ring to it.

Any ideas?

I admit I haven't come up with anything yet. And so maybe that means that the word 'blog' was created because there isn't much else better. But...I'm convinced there has to be.

So maybe I'm the only psycho out there that feels this way, but maybe not. And so if anyone agrees with me, feel free to input your ideas. We've got an Lucky-jean-style easy-access bandwagon right here at our fingertips. If we come up with the right phrase, it would without a doubt catch on.

Of course, the pundits might ask, whatever happened to just believing in what you're doing no matter what it's called? Who really cares what the damn thing is named as long as the content is good? I agree. I love the blogosphere and I love everything that goes along with it. It's probably too late to change the name.

But admit it...when you talk about blogs to the public at large, there is just something weird about the word. People turn off and you can tell your credibility has just diminished. And so for the good of our little world within a world, and just in case we stumble across genius, I just have to put the request for a different label out there.

Because, if this whole crazy society of blogs and the internet and cell phones and everything else is possible, then for sure anything can happen.