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I’m not entirely clear on the use of the verb “blog.”
Would you say I’m “blogging” this uncertainty, or am I blogging about it? Is blogging the entire act of thinking, composing and posting an insight or idea (or question)? Or is it just the posting part?
Personally, I think of “blogging” in its intransitive sense, as basically a synonym for “writing.”
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Hello, John.
Hello, Mary.
Tell me, Mary, what are you doing?
Well, John, I am blogging.
I see. And what are you blogging about, Mary?
Syphilis.
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Like that. I can’t “blog” something, in my understanding. I can blog, as an activity, or I can blog on a certain topic, but in neither case do I need a direct object. People say it this way, though: “I blogged my junior prom.” “I’ll probably blog my physical examination.” I even saw a t-shirt that read, “I’m blogging this.”
Great shirt.
But is that how you use the word?
I mean, I come home just like anybody else, and say to the Mrs., “Hey, I blogged. Did you read it?”
But maybe that’s *not* like everybody else… maybe Mary says, “John, I blogged syphilis just now. Did you read it?”
John: “I most certainly did, you skank!”
I say “blogged about”. So it’d be:
I blogged about my junior prom.
ditto.
xo Wee
I don’t know if I’m digging the ‘blog’ scene anymore. It’s giving us all a voice, when really it should only be writer’s writing. I think YOU should blog about and I should cease. I REALLY think it’s about time to start on a book.
Wait, are you saying it’s a bad thing that people who aren’t officially “writers” get a voice and a chance to express themselves?
You crazy, Tom.
If there’s one thing I know about writing, it’s that anybody can get better at it, and if there’s one thing I know about blogging, it’s that it can always make that happen.
Optimism is a disease Colin. Go scrub yourself!
Hear, hear, Lope. It’s “blogged about.” Most definitely.
Nice article