Hi Bernard, I'm working the analysis of data for a short survey of online content creation, and while I can't give firm numbers yet, I can tell you that precious few Americans (at least) are blogging. More may be _reading_ them, but not that many more... It may seem like a big, ubiquitous phenomenon to those of us who live heavily wired lives, but it hasn't hit the mainstream. Might be different outside the US. So I'm not particularly surprised that the dictionary folks haven't seen fit to include it in their latest offering. --Amanda Amanda Lenhart Research Specialist Pew Internet & American Life Project At 12:30 PM 7/9/2003, you wrote:
Last week, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition (2003), appeared in bookstores for the first time. I was surprised not to find an entry for "blog." I thought the term was at least 5 years old. Am I right? For how long has the term been in existence among bloggers? (Webster's Tenth Edition, 1993, understandably did not include "blog"; a representative from M-W says, however, that even for the 2003 edition the term is neither old enough nor generally known enough outside bloggerhood to be included in the Eleventh. Am I justified in my astonishment, or is the rep telling it like it really is?) --Bernard
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