Blog Bloke

I can remember the first time that I read the word ‘blog’. It was on Giles Turnbull’s page. It was a number of years ago. I was working on a very WEB 1.0 HTML page under an old AOL account. I had discovered how to connect to the net using a Palm Pilot Professional a cable and a Samsung flip cell phone. I had been posting the codes on how to get free data minutes from Sprint instead of being billed thirty-nine cents a minute for anything other that voice.

I came across Giles web site. He had his own Palm page at the time. I was reading a post in the way that only Giles can write about web logs how he had shortened the word to blog. As I read it, I can vividly remember thinking that he was using the word blog as one in the UK would use the word ‘bloke’. I read the word blog and in my mind, translated the word as bloke.

I checked his site a few minutes ago and was reminded the day I saw the word as one would be reminded of where they were when they first heard or saw the events of 9/11. My parents generation would liken it to saying where were you the day Kennedy was shot? I can’t remember the first time I heard the word macarena, Bennifer, Dubya, or open-source, but I do remember the moment I first read the word blog. The funny thing about it is, look at what a mess I have created in the word of a ‘blog’. Giles does not know it, but I have been an avid reader of his site ever since. He would probably read this and think of me as bloke with a blog. Perhaps he would post the first time he heard the words ’social networking’ on the web.