Pito points out that if you query Google with “define: blogs” (no quotes, of course), it presents definitions from a whole bunch of places. Very cool.

And the previous entry on Pito’s blog is in fact about defining “blog”. He argues that we should try to hold on to a fairly precise definition. This is in part a response to my bloggery about what the word may come to mean once blogging really goes mainstream.

I happen not to agree with Pito’s particular definition because it leaves out multi-person blogs that I really want to put in the bag marked “Blogs,” but I also don’t think there’s any real point in trying to hold on to the word. Markets do to words what they do to ideas and there’s just not much we can do ’bout it. In fact, trying to hold on to the word may slow the market’s assimilation of the idea, technology and practice.

On the other hand, I hate to see the word abused. Go figure!

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