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Tuesday, January 04, 2005
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BLOGOSCOPY
UD will use this wonderful word, coined by blogger royby.com, to title posts of hers that have to do with the subject of blogging itself. As royby.com says: I decided that I needed a new word that would adequately describe my investigation into the blogging phenomenon. Accordingly, I propose the word blogoscopy to mean - a close scrutiny, observation or investigation of phenomena relevant to the blogosphere. Derived from blog - a shortened version of weblog, and blogger - the person who engages in the act of blogging, both of which are components of the blogosphere, and scopy (Greek) -skopiâ, from skopein, to see, a suffix meaning - viewing; seeing; observation: as in microscopy. Here's a bit of self-consciousness about blogs, from Cathy Seipp's Media Moments 2004: May: I go to a Media Bistro party here in L.A. and get into a conversation about blogs with some guy from KPFK, the lefty Pacifica Radio station. A recent Blogads survey indicates that 80 percent of blog readers are men. “More women should write blogs!” the KPFK guy exclaims. “Then more women would read them.” “Should we make women read blogs even if they don’t want to?” I asked. “Should we limit the amount [UD can't help pointing out that this should be "number"] of male blog readers...or prevent more men from starting blogs, since there are already so many?” “Well...yes.” “How?” His argument sort of fizzled out there, as I guess even a loyal KPFK-er isn’t quite willing to enforce Stalinist methods for making All Blogs Equal In a Non-Sexist Blog Paradise. |