Last year, Forrest Wickman articulated one of my longstanding pet peeves: the conflation of “blog”and “blog post.”
No matter what dictionary you check—online, Urban, or otherwise—you will find no definition of blog that means blog post. Saying one to mean the other is like saying magazine when you mean article. The listener or reader may get your drift eventually, but only after they’ve been thrown for a loop.
He followed-up last week with a taunt to Gawker's Tom Scocca:
Go ahead and call a blog post a blog. You’ll only sound like the most clueless person on the Internets.
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