{"id":1158,"date":"2008-12-26T07:53:47","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T12:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2008-12-26T07:53:47","modified_gmt":"2008-12-26T12:53:47","slug":"bzzzzzzz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1158","title":{"rendered":"Bzzzzzzz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/ref\/weekinreview\/buzzwords2008.html\">Buzzwords of 2008<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Missing from the list is <em>blogohedron<\/em>, &#8220;popularized&#8221; by \u2026 me (sort of), so really it&#8217;s not a surprise.  I just happened to see <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/laelaps\/2008\/12\/science_bloggers_vs_journalist.php\">Brian Switek using it at Laelaps<\/a>, and acknowledging Blake Stacey for it, and Blake <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/laelaps\/2008\/12\/science_bloggers_vs_journalist.php#comment-1276203\">crediting me in the comments<\/a> (and, BTW, the link is a good summary of a recent blogger vs. journalist caged-death-match exchange).<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t and won&#8217;t take credit for coining the term, as a quick search shows it predates any use of it here.  But I have no recollection of seeing it anywhere before using it, so as far as I know it&#8217;s new to me and an example of convergent etymology.  I like it better than <em>blogosphere<\/em>, which gives me the impression of smoothness and uniformity, which doesn&#8217;t describe blogging as far as I&#8217;m concerned.  The world of blogging has facets and edges and pointy bits; it has texture, if not structure.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe we make the 2009 list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buzzwords of 2008 Missing from the list is blogohedron, &#8220;popularized&#8221; by \u2026 me (sort of), so really it&#8217;s not a surprise. I just happened to see Brian Switek using it at Laelaps, and acknowledging Blake Stacey for it, and Blake &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1158\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,49],"tags":[121],"class_list":["post-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-shameless-self-promotion","tag-blogohedron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}