It’s a small point, in the grand scheme of things, but when people ‘post a blog’ my day loses a little of its savour.
Ancient (well, several years old, at least) blogger credo insists: You post a post to your [web]log; you do not post a blog. You don’t upload a blog either, and there are purists who would prefer it if you didn’t blog as a verb at all. You are allowed, however, to post an update to your blog. It’s a pedantic minefield.
Having said all that, you can do all of the above so long as you don’t follow the lead of one long-ago sales colleague and tell me (repeatedly) that you’ve “sold a blog” because you think blog is the technical term for a one-off sponsored content slot.
Very annoying to post blog only to be deluged with angry tweets making it abundantly clear the tweeters haven’t read a word of said blog…
— Cathy Newman (@cathynewman) August 11, 2014
(I’ve nothing against Cathy’s tweeted sentiment, incidentally; she just happened to be the 3rd person to ‘post a blog’ in my timeline today)
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Amen to that. I’m glad I’m not the only one still resisting that semantic shift.
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You are one of the people who really made me grasp the the ‘you don’t post a blog’ message, all those years ago 😉
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It makes it remarkably hard to train people in blogging if you don’t have a common language of reference. Plus, “blogsite” is a horrible, horrible portmanteau word.
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