Micro Persuasion: Blog is Webster's Word of the Year!

Tuesday, November 30, 2004

Blog is Webster's Word of the Year!

Blog is Merriam-Webster's word of the year, Reuters reports. Kevin Duggan thinks it means bigger things are coming – like this (hopefully). The dictionary publisher said that blog, defined as "a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments and often hyperlinks," was one of the most looked-up words on its Internet sites this year. The term will become a new entry in the 2005 version of the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition.

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