Daniel Radosh says:
I think that if 42,000 people hadn't been killed in Pakistan on the samed day, this would have been just about the worst news I'd heard all weekend, and even so, it was close: "The world's first literary prize for books based on blogs or websites – known for short as 'blooks' – is launched Monday, 10th October, 2005." First of all, books based on blogs are NOT known as blooks and never will be, because that's the most annoying coinage ever. Second, the press release, when citing examples of this supposed new type of book, is reduced to mentioning Washingtonienne. Any contest in which Washingtonienne is eligable for an award is self-evidently crap.
Amen. You know, until I write a book. Which won't be called a "blook", in any case. Don't folks realize that "blog" is one of the worst terms the English language has ever vomited up? I'm proud of what I do, but I'm constantly on the lookout for a descriptor that doesn't make it sound like I write something a toddler picks and eats.
By the way, sorry for the lack of posting here today, Typepad was offline for the last several hours.
