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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Is it just me or did the media decide that they’re
going to call every BBS on the internet a BLOG all the sudden?? I had no idea
what a BLOG was. I had to look it up in the internet before I felt comfortable
posting to one… Here is what I found…..<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>blog<font color=black><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>to author an online diary or chronology of thoughts<font
color=black><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>1999-2004; abbr. of Weblog<font color=black><span
style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>blogged, blogging; blogger, n<font color=black><span
style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/wnmde/"
title="Click for more information about this dictionary">Source</a>: <cite><i><font
face="Times New Roman">Webster's New Millennium™ Dictionary of English,
Preview Edition (v 0.9.6)</font></i></cite><i><span style='font-style:italic'><br>
<cite><i><font face="Times New Roman">Copyright © 2003-2005 Lexico
Publishing Group, LLC</font></i></cite></span></i><font color=black><span
style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>blog<font color=black><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-style:italic'>noun</span></font></i><font
color=black><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>an online diary; a personal chronological log of
thoughts published on a Web page; also called <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>Weblog</span></i>, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Web log</span></i><font
color=black><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Typically updated daily, blogs often reflect the personality
of the author.<font color=black><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>shortened form of Weblog<font color=black><span
style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>blog, blogged, blogging <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>v, </span></i>blogger <i><span style='font-style:italic'>n</span></i><font
color=black><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>TO ME THIS IS A BUNCH OF B.S….. The media didn’t
know what to call BBSs so they made their own name up. Now we have to follow it
because they are stupid???? I call this B.S.!!!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Sorry for the off-matter subject. I just don’t want to
refer to this BBS as a ”BLOG”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><strong><b><font size=3 color=green face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:green'>Jason Wydra</span></font></b></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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