BLOG IS A FOUR LETTER WORD

BY DAN MILLER
(originally posted December 2, 2004)

When I first started this little website column back in the summer, my wife Karen's only request was that I not use the word "blog" in the title.

She feels "blog" is a less-than-pleasant sounding word.
When your wife makes such an observation, you pay attention, so I passed on such titles as "Bloggings", or "Blogatorium", or "Blogateer".

Of course, 'blog' is now a real, honest to goodness word. It's in all the dictionaries.
As every person in the world now knows, "blog" was created as a contraction of the words "web log".
If you didn't know that...... well, now everybody in the world knows it.

Anyhow, my first title choice for these essays was "Markings"...... but the late Dag Hammarskjold wrote a famous book by that title years ago --- a wonderful book if you haven't read it --- so I passed on that.

I considered "Jottings", but that sounded like doodling or drawings.

Other titles suggested and considered:
Chapbook
Storybook
READER’S InDIGESTion
Off Camera (I liked it, but Ted Koppel already used it)
Dan's Missive
Dan's Almanac
30 Years of Cynicism Builds Up (our GM suggested that - and he was serious)
Dan's Red Book
Dan's Web Scroll
Ramblings of A Beautiful Mind
Confessions of A Dangerous Mind (already taken)
Simple Observations of A Complicated Mind
Complicated Observations of A Simple Mind
Dan Unzipped
Harold the Column
Stuff
Raymond Burr's Notebook
and many, many others.

In the end, I settled on "Dan Miller's Notebook".
It's simple....... and some might say that fits me perfectly.

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