Lisa L. Spangenberg

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  • About
    • Contact
    • Policies
  • Blog: IT
  • Scholarship
  • Teaching
    • The Writing Process
    • On Passive Voice
    • Rhetorical Figures
    • Seventeenth Century Prose Style
    • Teaching with Technology
    • Writing at Work
  • Technology
    • IT: Blog
    • About IT:
  • Writing
    • Purple Prose
    • Murder Your Darlings or Kill Your Darlings
    • Show Don’t Tell
    • Writing in the Digital Realm
      • HTML Resources
      • HTML Entities
      • Cheat Notes for Web 2.0

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  • Commentary,  Culture and Society

    Blog Etymology and Meaning—Again

    Lisa Spangenberg / July 31, 2002

    I mentioned that the Oxford English Dictionary created an entry for the lemma “blog.” Now William Safire in the New York Times has a bit on the word “blog, though his is at…

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    On the Definition and History of the Lemma Web Log

    Lisa Spangenberg / June 13, 2002

    First, I stumbled across this nifty post by John S. Jacobs Anderson, wherein he declares what is and is not, a web log. Second, thanks to Blog Roots, I learned that the Oxford…

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    Warblogs, Tekkies, Journalists

    Lisa Spangenberg / June 9, 2002

    The first attestation that I can find of “warblog,” or its suffixed forms “warblogger, warblogging” is in Matt Welch’s 9/18/2001 3:06 post, where he uses the form “war blog.” Welch essentially defines war…

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  • Commentary,  Writing

    Pro and Amateur

    Lisa Spangenberg / June 5, 2002

    Dave Winer and Glen Reynolds posted about a conversation regarding blogging they shared with a journalist. Since the context is not completely clear from their blogs, I’m going to hazard a guess that…

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