{"id":1009,"date":"2004-12-01T13:45:56","date_gmt":"2004-12-01T17:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=1009"},"modified":"2004-12-01T13:45:56","modified_gmt":"2004-12-01T17:45:56","slug":"merriam-webster-year-of-the-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=1009","title":{"rendered":"Merriam-Webster: ‘Year of the Blog’"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the BBC World News<\/a> (via Raw Story<\/i><\/a>):<\/p>\n

Merriam-Webster said “blog” headed the list of most looked-up terms on its site during the last twelve months. <\/p>\n

During 2004 blogs, or web logs, have become hugely popular and some have started to influence mainstream media.
\n…
\nMerriam-Webster said “blog” was the word that people have asked to be defined or explained most often over the last 12 months. <\/p>\n

The word will now appear in the 2005 version of Merriam-Webster’s printed dictionary.
\n…
\n“Now we’re getting words that derive from it such as ‘blogosphere’ and so on,” he said. <\/p>\n

“But,” he added, “it’s a pretty recent thing and in the way that this happens these days it’s got established very quickly.”
\n…
\nAccording to US research firm Pew Internet & American Life a blog is created every 5.8 seconds.<\/div>\n

Top 10 words of 2004 according to Merriam-Webster<\/a>:<\/p>\n

1. blog<\/a>
\n2. incumbent<\/A>
\n3. electoral<\/A>
\n4. insurgent<\/A>
\n5. hurricane<\/A>
\n6. cicada<\/A>
\n7. peloton<\/A> :<\/STRONG> noun<\/EM> (1951) :<\/STRONG> the main body of riders in a bicycle race
\n8. partisan<\/A>
\n9. sovereignty<\/A>
\n10. defenestration<\/A><\/div>\n

Perhaps #10 there was looked up by folks wondering what ever came of democracy in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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