From blogs to insurgents, 2004&#39;s most looked-up words follow the ...
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. The most asked for definition on Merriam-Webster&#39;s Web site is for a word that&#39;s not even in the dictionary.
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While the U.S. military depicts the battle of Fallujah as a liberation, an anonymous American blogger posts far more graphic content and tends to point the finger of blame for civilian suffering at the military.
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Readership of online journals known as blogs grew significantly in 2004, driven by increased awareness of them during the presidential campaign and other major news events, according to a study released Sunday.
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If you&#39;re the tech-savvy sort, you may already know about blogs. If not, blog is short for Web log, a sort of online journal. They&#39;re the hottest thing to hit the Internet since Anna Kournikova.
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In Iraq, after four years and three months of war, the echoes have begun to echo themselves.
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On 25 October 2004, the New York Times ran a front-page story: &quot;Huge Cache of Explosives Vanished From Site in Iraq.&quot; The Times warned readers that &quot;380 tons of powerful conventional explosives
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Blog Declared Word of the Year  US Dictionary Merriam-Webster&rsquo;s has announced that the word &#8220;blog&#8221; is their word of the year in their annual pronouncement of the Top 10 words of 2004, which also bizarrely included the words cicada and defenestration. Webster&rsquo;s defines a blog as &#8220;a Web site that contains ...
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Merriam-Webster set the blogosophere buzzing this week with its announcement that the word âblogâ was among the most looked-up words of the year. The curious hordes were likely puzzled, however, by Merriam-Websterâs definition: âa Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments and often hyperlinks.â
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By Fred Reed, The Washington Times  Feb. 17--TROOPS' BLOGS UNDER SCRUTINY: Once again, technology has outrun  the laws we use to regulate it. Consider the Pentagon's current automated  surveillance of troops' blogs.
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For vivid reporting from the enormous zone of tsunami disaster, it was hard to beat the blogs.
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The most requested online definition this year was "blog" &#151; a word not even yet officially in the dictionary, Merriam-Webster says.
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A site called Iraqi Bloggers Central, which is quite upbeat about the American presence in Iraq, has provoked a deluge of intrigue and vitriol among its peer sites.
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BLOG, a contraction of the term âweb log,â is the latest geekspeak to enter Merriam-Websterâs Top-10 list of words for 2004.
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Hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of business travelers who write blogs have learned that their Web journals are more than online platforms to blow off steam.
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A former Special Forces soldier has created a loyal following on the Web with his accounts of frontline  soldiersâ daily work in Iraq.
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&quot;Blog&quot;, &quot;netiquette&quot;, &quot;cookie&quot; and &quot;wiki&quot; have been voted among the most irritating words spawned by the Internet, according to the results of a poll published Thursday.
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Technorati is making an attempt to organize the growing blogosphere with their new "Topics" feature.