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| Keith: Hi, I’m Keith. |
| Sadia: Hey and I’m Sadia. |
| Keith: All right, today we’re talking about blogs and blogging! |
| Sadia: Blogging! Alright-- I'm sure our listeners have heard of blogs and blogging, right? |
| Keith: Probably. They may not know, however, that the word "blog" is short for weblog. |
| Sadia: And a weblog is a website that is updated frequently-- sometimes many times in one day. |
| Keith: The entries in a blog are usually posted in reverse chronological order, which means that the newest entries, called posts, appear at the top of the webpage. |
| Sadia: Blogs began probably around the late 90s and have become more and more popular since then. Actually, the word, "weblog" was coined by this guy named Jorn Berger, he was a |
| programmer who kept one of the earliest blogs, which was called "Robot Existence." |
| Keith: "Robot Existence”, huh? |
| Sadia: Haha, yeah. Blogs began as personal accounts of events or chronicles or lists of things. |
| Keith: But today there are blogs for every topic you can think of; like gardening, hair, cage fighting, cupcakes, drumming, music, everything is covered. |
| Sadia: Yeah definitely and It has to be because there are more than 100 MILLION blogs out there. |
| Keith: Wow, 100 million, huh? |
| Sadia: Insane, that's like the size of the population of, like, Mexico-- or, like, the Philippines! |
| Keith: Bigger than some countries too, huh? That’s a lot, huh? |
| Sadia: It is. Another interesting tidbit for our listeners - BLOGOSPHERE. The blogosphere refers to the whole community of blogs on the internet-- all of them. |
| Keith: So, if you hear a pundit, or expert on the television news, talking about what's hot in the blogosphere, you know that they mean what's popular among bloggers. |
| Sadia: Also, blog is a noun, but you can also use it as a verb, as in “to blog”. For example, I'm going to blog about that concert I went to the other day. |
| Keith: Today it seems EVERYONE has a blog. |
| Sadia: It does, right? I think that’s because it's practically true! |
| Keith: And you know what, we blog too! |
| Sadia: We do! In fact, EnglishClass101.com is itself a kind of blog. We update it everyday with information we create ourselves, so we do blog! |
| Keith: Listeners, we got a question - do you blog? |
| Sadia: Share your URL with us in the comments section! |
| Sadia : Let's take a look at some of the vocabulary for this Buzzwords lesson. |
| Sadia: blog (noun) [natural native speed] |
| Keith: blog (noun) [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: short for weblog, a frequently updated website with |
| short opinions or descriptions of activities |
| Keith: blog (noun) [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Sadia: blog (noun) [natural native speed] |
| Keith: weblog [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: weblog [natural native speed] |
| Keith: a frequently updated website on which entries are |
| posted in reverse time order |
| Sadia: weblog [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Keith: weblog [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: to coin [natural native speed] |
| Keith: to coin [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: to create; to come up with |
| Keith: to coin [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Sadia: to coin [natural native speed] |
| Keith: blog (verb) [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: blog (verb) [natural native speed] |
| Keith: to write or maintain a weblog |
| Sadia: blog (verb) [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Keith: blog (verb) [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: to update [natural native speed] |
| Keith: to update [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: to bring up to date; to make current |
| Keith: to update [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Sadia: to update [natural native speed] |
| Keith: frequently [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: frequently [natural native speed] |
| Keith: often |
| Sadia: frequently [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Keith: frequently [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: URL [natural native speed] |
| Keith: URL [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: a website address |
| Keith: URL [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Sadia: URL [natural native speed] |
| Keith: pundit [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: pundit [natural native speed] |
| Keith: an expert who shares his or her opinion with mass |
| media |
| Sadia: pundit [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Keith: pundit [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: community [natural native speed] |
| Keith: community [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: a group of people |
| Keith: community [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Sadia: community [natural native speed] |
| Keith: blogger [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: blogger [natural native speed] |
| Keith: a person who maintains a blog |
| Sadia: blogger [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Keith: blogger [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: blogosphere [natural native speed] |
| Keith: blogosphere [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: buzzword referring to the community or collection of |
| blogs on the Internet |
| Keith: blogosphere [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Sadia: blogosphere [natural native speed] |
| Keith: population [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: population [natural native speed] |
| Keith: the whole number of people in a country or region |
| Sadia: population [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Keith: population [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: post [natural native speed] |
| Keith: post [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: an entry on a blog |
| Keith: post [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Sadia: post [natural native speed] |
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