Ban the Blog!
"According to Tim Dowling on the Guardian Unlimited’s... er... blog:
The editor-in-chief of US Vogue has apparently decided that the word blog is vulgar and refuses to let it be used on the Vogue website. It is said that she has even told staff to come up with a replacement before the website is relaunched.
Wintour may be mistaken in assuming that she can bring her personal taste to bear on the language like some one-woman Académie française, but there is a wider point to consider: many of our internet neologisms have been foisted upon us by a small band of technogeeks with a weakness for portmanteau words, bad puns and unwieldy acronyms ..."
Okay ... while this post recognizes the ummm, lateness(?) of any effort to object to the word 'blog,' and some have even postulated that this is because the EIC in question might be SATAN! (and we all know how busy Satan is these days, so no wonder she's late in getting around to trivial-in-comparison-to-the-downfall-of-mankind blogs) how come it's on a page headed by a graphic which reads "January Magazine?" It's a girl's name, maybe? Maybe I'm confused too easily? (Okay wiseguy there at the keyboard ... I heard that. That was completely uncalled for.)
