How Blogs Began

Happy Blogiversary!

Happy Blogiversary to Me! This blog is one year old today. I remember my very first post. I was ready for a different way to post pictures, and making the webpage had just gotten to be too much work! This has been more fun than work. I have learned some interesting things, including a whole new language!

• Blogathy - I do not want to post today and I do not care about it
• Blogopotamus - A long long blog post
• Blogorrhea - unusually high output of articles
• Bleg - To use one’s blog to beg for assistance etc.
• Hitnosis - Refreshing your browser repeatedly to see if your hit counter or comments have increased
• Blogoholic - addicted to blogging
• Blogorific = blogtastic - something which a blogger says is terrific
• Blogsit - maintaining a blog while the primary blogger is on leave
• Blogvertising - Also called blogvert. Advertising on a blog.
• Blurker - a blog reader not posting comments, just lurking around quietly.
• Blogstorm - a large amount of blogosphere activity due to particular controversy. Also called Blog Swarm.

To see more uselss blogging information, go to the Blogging Glossary.

If a tree falls. . .

From Blaugh

Blogging

I really should be working on taxes. . .

For the world's lazy bloggers

Read more about the Ergopod here.

What to say, what to say. . .

Elderblogging

Borrowing from Fasha who borrowed from an 84 year old blogger,

All this furor about mid-life crisis leaves me unmoved. If you want the drama of lifestyle crisis, wait until you get to late life. That's when things really change - and adapting becomes a challenge. "Too soon we get old -- too late we get smart."

For some reason, I find it fascinating what the older bloggers have to say, and it makes me smile to think of little old people blogging away on their computers! There's even a name for it - elderblogging.

There's Thoroughly Modern Millie who is 81 and A Little Red Hen who is 74. and my favorite, Don to Earth, whose author is 93. At The Ageless Project, there are many blogs listed with the bloggers' year of birth, showing that "the personal, creative side of the web is ageless." Mr. Incognito at 81 claims to be "the oldest Christian blogger in the world."

National Delurking Week!

So I hear this is National Delurking Week. What in the world is that, you ask? Well, it seems to be a little known week where bloggers are supposed to own up to reading the blogs that they do, make a comment, maybe say, thanks, I like what you write. Now I'm not saying I'm going to do that, but maybe I will.

Oh, and how did I find out about that? Well, it was actually on this delightful blog that I check nearly every day! (And no, I don't know the person at all, and yes, I am definitely lurking!)

Welcome

Welcome Laura
to the Blogosphere!

A New Blogger

Welcome this newest member of the blogosphere!