Uncle Jazzbeau’s Gallimaufrey

bjourns

Ray Davis over at Bellona Times adds another log to the (phon)aesthetics of bloggery.

That root shame being "weblog," the primal misnomer, which trespassed on the established and necessary term "web log" (where we find HTTP stats) and only applied to a small subset of exemplars. (Like, captains don't board ship to annotate other captains' logs, nor do their logs crossreference each other.)

What we write — what's-new catalogers, fiskers, diarists, critics, and poets alike — are web journals. Journals: as in magazine, as in zine, as in newspaper, as in pamphlets, as in ledger, as in notebook. On the web: as in short, with links, with the flexibility to support established readers (reverse chronological order) and random readers (findable, searchable) and chatty readers (comments, email, trackback).

I'll have to agree with him on the unfortunate namespace collision with HTTP logs, but perhaps that's why blog developed. Who knows? I'm holding out for bjourn, rhymes with churn, although it sounds too much like Bajoran in rapid speech.

[More links at Semantics etc.]