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To: Shoot1st who wrote (1525)	3/22/2005 2:02:35 PM
From: Rainy_Day_Woman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5290

this little blip is vernacular rich For some time now I've been hoping to catch up with the net savvy crowd by creating a "blog." As soon as I get a little free time (I've been telling myself), I'll get started. Maybe then I'll break the news story of the century. But there's no use in me trying to catch up. By the time I get this done, it'll be too late. Internet techies are already moving on to the next wave: Vlogging. Vlogs are blogs with video. (A picture is worth a thousand words, right?) So now I have to learn how to set up and maintain my blog in plain English, and then I have to learn how to take a decent video, edit it, and dump it into my blog. (Not exactly "falling off a log.") Most vloggers these days are offering up videos of junior's first bath or Uncle Bert's birthday party. But one guy in Boston did a video expose of campaign workers campaigning too close to polling places on Election Day, so this has real potential for the skilful. And if vloggers are really ambitious, they add music. Does that make their sites "mlogs," or a "vmlogs," or a "vmblogs?" We could simplify this by calling them all "slogs" (that's what we have to do to get through them), or "clogs," (for what they do to our brains), or "flogs" (for the way I feel when I'm done reading some of them). Or we could simplify this and call them all "bogs." This reminds me that I sometimes think our language is evolving into a combination of rap and tech speak. In other words, it's turning into Ewok, and George Lucas, who thought the Ewoks up, is once again a visionary of our times. Vmblog, George! Whatever the Internet becomes and however it changes our world, I'll be bringing up the rear contentedly. It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it.