US: US election makes blog the word of the year
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A four-letter term that came to symbolise the difference between old and new media during this year&#39;s presidential campaign tops US dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster&#39;s list of the 10 words of the year.
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Merriam-Webster says the most searched word on its Web sites in 2004 was &quot;blog.&quot; The dictionary publisher defines the word as &quot;a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer.
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Last year proved big for blogs and bloggers, according to data released from The Pew Internet & American Life Project. Blog readership jumped 58 percent between February and November, and comprised 32 million U.S. citizens in 2004. More than 8 million U.S. citizens have created a Web-based diary, and one in 10, or around 14 million U.S. Internet users, has contributed thoughts or comments to a blog.
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NEW YORK - &quot;Blog&quot; is now the most popular search word in the online version of the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Its frequent lookup paralleled its growth on the political scene this year as keepers of Web logs
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The electoral shorthand for a divided America and the perceived nastiness of the U.S. presidential race generated the defining words and phrases of the year, a Web site specializing in language said on Friday.
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"Truthiness" and "Wikiality" -- two  of the words popularized by political satirist Stephen Colbert  on his TV show "The Colbert Report"-- were named on Sunday the  top television buzzwords of the year.
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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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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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English-derived neologism bids for world domination God alone knows what Cervantes would have made of it, but the English term "blogosphere" has slithered onto the growing list of neologisms shoehorned into the noble Castillian language, joining chatear, chip, formatear, Internet and mÃ³dem in a burgeoning list of tech and net-based foreign vocab.â¦Learn &amp; Contribute, Live &amp; Online - The Register Debates Green Computing
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Traffic on Web logs -- blogs for short -- and other political sites skyrocketed on Election Day, creating online audiences rivaling those of traditional media organizations. -Leslie Walker
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Merriam-Webster, the US dictionary publisher, says the word &quot;Blog&quot; is the number one word of 2004 among its list of the top 10 words looked up on their dictionary Web sites.
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Description: The most requested word on Merriam-Webster&#39;s Web site isn&#39;t in the dictionary yet. The word is blog. It will be in the next edition.
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The most requested online definition this year was "blog" - a word not even yet officially in the dictionary, Merriam-Webster says.
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Electronic voting in the US. The saga continues. Here is an interesting comparision with a Venezuelan referendum. &quot;80% of Americans could correctly name the first President Bush&#39;s pet dog Millie, but only
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Merriam-Webster catches up to gamer lingo, sort of, as 'w00t' snags top honors as the dictionary's Word of the Year for 2007. What word would you vote for?
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The term &quot;blog&quot; has been chosen as the top word of 2004 by a US dictionary publisher. Merriam-Webster said &quot;blog&quot; headed the list of most looked-up terms on its site during the last twelve months.
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Everyone remembers Florida&#39;s 2000 election debacle, and all of the new terms it introduced to our political lexicon: Hanging chads, dimpled chads, pregnant chads, overvotes, undervotes