ablogisnotapost – Climb to the Stars

[fr] De plus en plus répandue, la confusion entre "blog" et "post/billet/article" est un cancer qui ronge la terminologie blogosphérique. Pour mémoire, un blog est un type de site composé d'une série d'articles (ou posts, ou billets). On ne dirait pas, dans le cas d'un magazine composé d'articles, "j'ai écrit un nouveau magazine" -- et donc on ne dit pas "j'ai écrit un nouveau blog sur le sujet".

Photographiez les coupables à coups de saisie d'écran et envoyez-les-moi -- je les ajouterai à la collection dans ce b... illet!

Lately, [I](http://twitter.com/stephtara/statuses/203169312) ([and others](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2007/06/what_is_a_blog.html)) have noticed an increasingly aggravating trend: saying “blog” instead of “post”.

To make it clear: a blog is a type of website, made of a collection of blog posts, or “posts”.

Just like a magazine is a collection of articles. You wouldn’t say “he just wrote a new magazine” instead of “he just wrote a new article”, would you?

So, you don’t say “to write a blog” instead of “to write a post”. It just doesn’t make sense.

I’ve started collecting screenshots of offenders and I’m collecting them here (Flickr tag: [ablogisnotapost](http://flickr.com/photos/tags/ablogisnotapost)). Post your own screenshots on Flickr and I’ll add them to this blog… post (!) — with credit, linkage, and everything, of course. Just drop me a line or leave a comment with the link.

Let’s fight back and get all those newcomers to get their terminology straight before it’s too late!

#### “Blog” and “post” confusion — offenders

[How to Make a Blog](http://how-to-make-a-blog.blogspot.com/2007/08/how-do-i-choose-web-hosting-provider.html):

E-mail:

[StumbleUpon](http://stumbleupon.com):

[Plasq](http://plasq.com/), courtesy of [Stowe Boyd](http://stoweboyd.com):

Maria on [Millions of Us](http://millionsofus.com/blog/archives/331), courtesy of [Stowe Boyd](http://stoweboyd.com) (one could argue that this is, in fact, her “first blog”):

[Foreign correspondent Telegraph Blog](http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/foreign/catherineelsworth/sept07/britney-mtv.htm), courtesy of [Adam Tinworth](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/):

[SAP Community Network](https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/sdnweblogs/webloggers):

[Alan Patrick](http://broadstuff.com/archives/457-The-Future-of-Web-Apps-is-a-long,-long-shadow.html) (his excuse: lots of beer and a late night, and an attempt at justification by invoking a semantic shift of the word “blog”):

[Dwayne Phillips commenting on /Message](http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2007/10/with-apologies-.html#comment-87979976):

[Tim Berners-Lee himself :-(](http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/215):

Send me yours!

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